Developers don't want to go all in because of small user base.
Small user base exists because of so few games.
Add the relatively high cost ( for most people ) of a Vive or Occulus setup complete with gaming rig level hardware to run it, plus the bullshit infighting between hardware makers to become the " standard " and it's easy to see why it hasn't taken off.
Additionally, since the person leading this charge is the CEO of an insurance company, it is likely he already sees the writing on the wall for the car insurance industry as a whole.
" Why are they so eager to do business with a dictatorship that openly seeks to crush the US, while refusing to do business with the Department of Defense? "
If Google decides to go forward with their Chinese project, the US Department of Defense may force them into a choice. You can either work with us, or with the Chinese. But not both.
Then again, it may come with US Intelligence's blessings as a view inside of China. So, publicly, the USG gives them hell, but secretly, ( those benefits they spoke of ) they're hoping it happens.
Or, China may let Google build their search engine for them and, at some point in the future, seize all hardware and software and kick Google out. You KNOW they're never going to allow those servers to sit outside mainland China. Not going to happen.
Primary power = Commercial AC Secondary = Generators
Battery strings and rectifiers in that mix somewhere. Trivia: Many telco systems are DC. Usually -48v
Lightning strike probably destroyed batteries and / or rectifiers meaning even IF the generator came out unscathed, it would not matter.
If it is a building that housed a pass-through fiber node, it will not take long to reroute it.
If it is a fiber drop / handoff point, may take a bit longer but AT&T will roll their mobile crisis units out ( essentially 18-wheelers loaded with routing, switching and fiber hardware that can be sent just about anywhere with short notice ). Think of them as a mobile Central Office.
I know we all like to hate on AT&T but I guarantee there is an army of folks on site doing everything they can to restore service.
Would be to ban ALL negative advertising on candidates period.
It is bad enough the ads for âoe How amazing I am and I approve this message âoe , but the negative attack ads probably outnumber them three to one.
Hell, one is playing as I type this and hitting the mute button the moment one starts has become second nature now.
It is amazing our system of voting includes this level of bullshit. After a few decades of this and nothing ever changing ( in the grand scheme of things ) is it any wonder why folks become disillusioned with it all.
First, we try the carrot: " Two U.S. senators have called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to soften India's stance on data localization "
if that doesn't produce the expected result, the stick is used: " That's a nice H-1B visa program many of your citizens are currently utilizing. Would be a shame if something happened to it. "
Want to take a guess which way India will go in the end ?
Police: Don't look into the subjects phone so it doesn't lock you out.
or
Non-Police: Don't use biometrics ( face-id or fingerprints ) to unlock your phone in the first place.
If you just stick to a decent password, not only will it help those forgetful law enforcement types ( because it won't matter if they look at your phone or not ) but you also cannot be forced to give up a password ( in the US at least . . . . for now ) so it's a win-win for everybody:D
Personally, I think the phones should have an emergency user-configurable duress code. Key it in even once and the phone encrypts the entire phone ( just to be sure ) to some random key ( plausible deniability. . . . you truly won't know the passcode to unlock it at that point ) or just runs an embedded version of Bleach-Bit ( or similar ) that kills any hope of pulling any data from the device at all.
On that thought, I wonder if the App Store would even allow such an app to begin with.
Let's put their ' privacy for the consumer ' speeches to the test shall we ?
Folks freaking out about a censored search engine in China.
While not OBVIOUSLY censored here in the US, the search results can be manipulated to drive folks to certain sites over others which can then be used to modify public opinion on any given topic.
Google et al can do this without most even realizing it, whereas the mainstream media doesn't even try to be sneaky about it at all. You KNOW if you're watching a Fox affiliate it's going to be nothing but Republican love whereas any CNN broadcast is going to be all Democrat.
Typically, if you know which way the CEO leans, then you know what bias to expect from any information source owned by them. ( Thus the danger posed by allowing the consolidation of media companies into the hands of so few people. )
Example: Type in the word " Trump " in any search engine.
If the first several pages return a majority of hits from sources that loathe the man, those folks reading said material may eventually develop a negative opinion towards Trump in general based on what they're exposed to day after day.
The same holds true for sources that think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Subtly shift a majority of your hits from sources that absolutely adore him and you get the opposite effect. A population exposed to nothing but positive information will have a vastly different opinion from those who are fed nothing but negative data.
Now, take that idea and realize that a search engine can subtly modify search results based on any criteria they want ( which is why they're all so interested in hoovering up as much data about you as they can ). Then you understand that the data you're looking at might not be as bias free as it should be since the results you're seeing may have been ' tweaked ' a bit in an effort to shape your opinion.
Will anyone admit to being compromised by such a thing, if the story turns out to be true. The impact on stock prices alone will probably keep companies from disclosing anything if they have any say so in the matter.
If you live in the US, you can't really be outraged about what China is doing when we have the NSA intercepting Cisco* hardware and tampering with it before shipping it on to the end customer. ( *Cisco is the only one we know about, who knows what else they have their hands in )
This is something everyone needs to think carefully about.
How much do you trust your supplier and what happens when relations with your supplier takes a bad turn ? Still think relying on a single source for the majority of your goods is a great idea ?
Someone stumbled across an NSA project and are laying all the blame on China.
Everyone is denying everything in the hope that it goes away because if it turns out that it IS a three letter agency project, the pitchforks are going to come back out.
Just don't tell anyone or brag about it to your coworkers / management lest you run the same risk of being let go. Sure they can keep you on so you can keep automating things, you just have to be ok with being the reason folks are getting laid off. ( Tip: They're definitely not paying you anywhere near the amount you're saving them )
I write small stuff for public use to help make the job more efficient. Those that can be utilized to replace people completely, I keep under wraps.
No one is going to sign up for half a dozen streaming services just so they can watch all the exclusive content. One . . . . MAYBE two. After that, fuck it. I'm not going to bother with it. I'll go find it on Yarr Matey TV.
It's like Sony vs Microsoft vs Nintendo in the console market. I'm not buying another GD console just for exclusive titles. It's the same for Oculus vs Vive vs Sony in the VR world. I bought ONE. That's it.
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Developers don't want to go all in because of small user base.
Small user base exists because of so few games.
Add the relatively high cost ( for most people ) of a Vive or Occulus setup complete with gaming rig level hardware to run it, plus the bullshit infighting between hardware makers to become the " standard " and it's easy to see why it hasn't taken off.
It really never stood a chance.
Additionally, since the person leading this charge is the CEO of an insurance company, it is likely he already sees the writing on the wall for the car insurance industry as a whole.
Self driving cars will likely have near zero insurance premiums for the occupants of said vehicle since they are not actually driving it.
This means the human driven counterpart will see ludicrous insurance requirements to drive it around on public streets.
The cost alone will prevent all but the 1% from owning a âoe traditional âoe human driven vehicle once self drive becomes mainstream.
I don't really think he cares if he gets ousted or not.
Robocalls, telemarketers, et al are the reason I just quit answering my phone.
Unless the number shows up as a known number from my contacts, I just let it go to voicemail.
I don't even bother to try anymore.
We really need a whitelist app that functions like an ACL. If the number isn't on the list, it goes
directly to voicemail without ringing.
Question is: Will the phone makers even allow such an app to exist ?
" Why are they so eager to do business with a dictatorship that openly seeks to crush the US, while refusing to do business with the Department of Defense? "
If Google decides to go forward with their Chinese project, the US Department of Defense may force them into a choice.
You can either work with us, or with the Chinese. But not both.
Then again, it may come with US Intelligence's blessings as a view inside of China. So, publicly, the USG gives them hell, but secretly, ( those benefits they spoke of ) they're hoping it happens.
Or, China may let Google build their search engine for them and, at some point in the future, seize all hardware and software and kick Google out. You KNOW they're never going to allow those servers to sit outside mainland China. Not going to happen.
Who knows.
If they keep the GPU acceleration features intact, I can see it eating through an iPad battery in a hurry.
" If it ain't broke, don't fix it " still applies . . . .
. . . though in the electronics ( especially the computer ) world it should probably read " If it's working fine, don't upgrade it lest you break it "
Stay off of social media and the problem mentioned in the headline is irrelevant.
Maybe the bots will get into and / or instigate arguments between themselves.
. . . if a bot makes a statement, and no one is there to read it, would anyone care ?
Primary power = Commercial AC
Secondary = Generators
Battery strings and rectifiers in that mix somewhere. Trivia: Many telco systems are DC. Usually -48v
Lightning strike probably destroyed batteries and / or rectifiers meaning even IF the generator came out unscathed, it would not matter.
If it is a building that housed a pass-through fiber node, it will not take long to reroute it.
If it is a fiber drop / handoff point, may take a bit longer but AT&T will roll their mobile crisis units out ( essentially 18-wheelers loaded with routing, switching and fiber hardware that can be sent just about anywhere with short notice ). Think of them as a mobile Central Office.
I know we all like to hate on AT&T but I guarantee there is an army of folks on site doing everything they can to restore service.
Would be to ban ALL negative advertising on candidates period.
It is bad enough the ads for âoe How amazing I am and I approve this message âoe , but the negative attack ads probably outnumber them three to one.
Hell, one is playing as I type this and hitting the mute button the moment one starts has become second nature now.
It is amazing our system of voting includes this level of bullshit. After a few decades of this and nothing ever changing ( in the grand scheme of things ) is it any wonder why folks become disillusioned with it all.
First, we try the carrot:
" Two U.S. senators have called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to soften India's stance on data localization "
if that doesn't produce the expected result, the stick is used:
" That's a nice H-1B visa program many of your citizens are currently utilizing. Would be a shame if something happened to it. "
Want to take a guess which way India will go in the end ?
Police: Don't look into the subjects phone so it doesn't lock you out.
or
Non-Police: Don't use biometrics ( face-id or fingerprints ) to unlock your phone in the first place.
If you just stick to a decent password, not only will it help those forgetful law enforcement types ( because it won't matter if they look at your phone or not ) but you also cannot be forced to give up a password ( in the US at least . . . . for now ) so it's a win-win for everybody :D
Personally, I think the phones should have an emergency user-configurable duress code. Key it in even once and the phone encrypts the entire phone ( just to be sure ) to some random key ( plausible deniability. . . . you truly won't know the passcode to unlock it at that point ) or just runs an embedded version of Bleach-Bit ( or similar ) that kills any hope of pulling any data from the device at all.
On that thought, I wonder if the App Store would even allow such an app to begin with.
Let's put their ' privacy for the consumer ' speeches to the test shall we ?
Folks freaking out about a censored search engine in China.
While not OBVIOUSLY censored here in the US, the search results can be manipulated to drive folks to certain sites over others which can then be used to modify public opinion on any given topic.
Google et al can do this without most even realizing it, whereas the mainstream media doesn't even try to be sneaky about it at all. You KNOW if you're watching a Fox affiliate it's going to be nothing but Republican love whereas any CNN broadcast is going to be all Democrat.
Typically, if you know which way the CEO leans, then you know what bias to expect from any information source owned by them.
( Thus the danger posed by allowing the consolidation of media companies into the hands of so few people. )
Example: Type in the word " Trump " in any search engine.
If the first several pages return a majority of hits from sources that loathe the man, those folks reading said material may eventually develop a negative opinion towards Trump in general based on what they're exposed to day after day.
The same holds true for sources that think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Subtly shift a majority of your hits from sources that absolutely adore him and you get the opposite effect. A population exposed to nothing but positive information will have a vastly different opinion from those who are fed nothing but negative data.
Now, take that idea and realize that a search engine can subtly modify search results based on any criteria they want ( which is why they're all so interested in hoovering up as much data about you as they can ). Then you understand that the data you're looking at might not be as bias free as it should be since the results you're seeing may have been ' tweaked ' a bit in an effort to shape your opinion.
Just a thought.
Will anyone admit to being compromised by such a thing, if the story turns out to be true.
The impact on stock prices alone will probably keep companies from disclosing anything if they have any say so in the matter.
If you live in the US, you can't really be outraged about what China is doing when we have the NSA intercepting Cisco* hardware and tampering with it before shipping it on to the end customer. ( *Cisco is the only one we know about, who knows what else they have their hands in )
This is something everyone needs to think carefully about.
How much do you trust your supplier and what happens when relations with your supplier takes a bad turn ?
Still think relying on a single source for the majority of your goods is a great idea ?
Start holding the Telecoms responsible for failing to fix the ability to spoof Caller ID.
They start footing the bills for fraudulent shit like this they'll have that shit fixed in no time.
âoe If you post illegal stuff to Facebook...you might be a moron. Out of the gene pool, please. âoe
Think a little deeper.
Assume you do something stupid and the police are looking for you. They watch your FaceBook account to see if youâ(TM)re dumb enough to post to it.
You donâ(TM)t because you know theyâ(TM)re probably watching.
So, the police use one of their many fake accounts to watch and / or get cozy with your FB friends and contacts.
One of your friends canâ(TM)t resist the charm of the new girl / guy that came out of nowhere on FB that suddenly takes an interest in them . . .
It doesnâ(TM)t take long before you screw up and contact known friends and / or family.
One of your FB friends will slip up and say something which gives the police tips on where to look for you.
Someone stumbled across an NSA project and are laying all the blame on China.
Everyone is denying everything in the hope that it goes away because if it turns out that it IS a three letter agency project, the pitchforks are going to come back out.
Just don't tell anyone or brag about it to your coworkers / management lest you run the same risk of being let go.
Sure they can keep you on so you can keep automating things, you just have to be ok with being the reason folks are getting laid off.
( Tip: They're definitely not paying you anywhere near the amount you're saving them )
I write small stuff for public use to help make the job more efficient. Those that can be utilized to replace people completely, I keep under wraps.
Di$ney doesn't really give two shits about the quality as long as it brings in profits.
The Last Jedi was so bad I didn't even bother to see Solo. Just done wasting money on it at this point.
No one is going to sign up for half a dozen streaming services just so they can watch all the exclusive content.
One . . . . MAYBE two. After that, fuck it. I'm not going to bother with it. I'll go find it on Yarr Matey TV.
It's like Sony vs Microsoft vs Nintendo in the console market. I'm not buying another GD console just for exclusive titles.
It's the same for Oculus vs Vive vs Sony in the VR world. I bought ONE. That's it.
Shocking I say.
1) Netflix is the most popular streaming service
and
2) It's video which, by default, is very bandwidth hungry especially at
HD and above resolutions.
Add those together and the headline shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
How many patents are out there that are also bullshit magic that didn't get noticed ?
" Beware of Greeks bearing gifts "
Between a hijacked " killer " robot and today's method of calling the police for the sole purpose of sending a Swat team to the targets home.
One is directly under your control, the other indirectly. The outcome is pretty much the same.