Forget about Europa, crashing into Jupiter proper would be an awesome and fun suicide. How does the cloud cover looks like when seen firsthand, just above it then inside it? Are you better off after crossing the radiation belts (radiation wise) and how far/how long can you survive exactly.
I wondered WTF you are talking about with "bionic", bionic means neural implants or robotic hand attached to your body or whatever. You probably need to capitalize that, word, i.e. the Bionic C libraries.
Go back 2,000 years and you'll find that the level of behavior we all find barbaric (crucifiction, torture, rape-as-war-tactic and many others) were very common all across the world. What you'll find, though, is that the societies that systematically started moving away from them the hardest are the ones that embraced monotheism of the Judao-Christian line.
Even very moderate reading about the WW2 Eastern front makes me feel a Judeo-Christian line won't necessarily shield you much or at all from that crap. That was happening only 70 years ago. Maybe we just got lucky (speaking for Europe/US), we got rich and were shielded by nuclear weapons and so we were mostly freed of misery and war.
No, Iran doesn't build nuclear weapons, or at least that's what the three-letter-agencies collectively say. If they really wanted nukes they could have spared themselves all the attention, rage and issues from the uranium centrifuges program and just have gone plutonium like Israel, South Africa and North Korea did.
I believe their nuclear program is for generating electricity, and pissing contest (like e.g. the Chinese space station but easier and more useful)
I think there are about 100 planets (plus or minus one or two orders of magnitude) with complex life in our galaxy, meaning multi-cellular life, or even just unicellular beings with a nucleus.
So many things can fuck up the life : a planet tidally locked to the sun, that's not very comfortable. Extinction-level meteor impact every couple million years, because the gas giants are badly placed or something. Unstable sun. Lack of a strong magnetosphere, so unusual big solar flares tend to kill your life too often (at least the land based one). Lack of a moon said to lead to the axial tilt varying too much. Planet rotating too slow (see Venus where the day is longer than the year) : it's freezing cold at night or too hot in the day or both. Perfect planetary system not suffering any of this.. in a violent neighborhood with supernovae and gamma ray bursts.
So, maybe you have a number of actually suitable planets or moons. Some of them are basically stucked to marine life or just bacteria (possibly highly evolved bacteria, but still). Others may have some intelligent-but-not-so-quite life : Earth ruled by the dinosaurs, or what would Earth be if there hadn't been an ecosystem somewhere where primates evolved. Some may have an industrial civilization, which seems to quickly appear when language is evolved.
It's likely that industrial civilizations are separated by many thousands light-years from each other, and you would have to be extraordinary lucky to have one 100 to 200 light-years away, which is practically next door.
Does Amazon treat them well?, for starts no guarantee of employment, total hour flexibility - they can fire you at will, reduce your hours, change your shift at will then make you work 12 hours per day at a whim. Everyone permanently on an ejection seat. So it's set up with fear, abuse and "competition" (read hatred) between workers that have to fight for the crumbs and live in fear of going homeless or hungry.
It's also a job of running around with boxes and maintaining very high productivity all day - doing that more than 8 hours is a bit insane - so I guess the work week is little more than commute/work/sleep. It's not a horrible thing per se and I do share your concerned that manual work is undervalued - which is a symptom of the general hatred towards the working class in the US. But I'm not sure you can disconnect the issue of wage. The job barely pays for the needed food intake, barely affording to be in good enough shape for the work is somewhat part of the working conditions. It's also amazing that $10.50 is "above the minimum wage" or that minimum wages are not adjusted for inflation. You people need a nice week-long general strike involving a few million people, with stores and fast-food joints not functioning, garbage piling up, trucks blocking the highway ramps, that sort of things.
So you provided your daughter with comfortable housing and food and education, in a place or near a place she could sell donuts, and gave her advice (maybe there are hurried white collar guys that can afford to casually buy donuts and coffee, and that makes their day happier)
I'd be a fool to call this priviledges but those little things can make a huge difference vs not even having them. Esp. when youth can't get a first job (been like that in my country for a decade or more, in the US it's becoming real but is very recent. It's called mass unemployment).
Smoking at the wheel doesn't use your attention, and is even somewhat beneficial next to suffering from withdrawal symptom. It's not more dangerous than using a stick shift, which is legal. Of course people are assholes, or are too dumb to figure out they should open the ashtray before smoking and put the butt into ashtray.
By your reasoning fiddling with radio, A/C controls should not be done and I agree it's kind of dangerous (esp. if unfamiliar with the controls) and hell, merely listening to talk shows, radio news etc. is a problem, moreso than smoking at the wheel.
That robot will be rejected from a Fine Arts academy, failing the entrance exam twice, and from disgust and despise will try to take over the world instead.
Please, Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. It was only done on paper too and there's no evidence for anything else. Taliban will not win the war, they do guerrilla warfare on their territory and I don't quite see how they can invade the rest of the country but if they did the US is ready to intervene, seize the nuclear weapons and get them out of the country.
You sound like some nut like Netanyahu, some concerns are real but beware of parroting lies made for domestic Israeli or US consumption.
This could be a fun connector to use once the patent runs out. I even have it on a small Philips stereo but I can't use it because legal threats prevent compatible media players being made. It has a serial port, though. That doesn't seem "completely analog" to me.
How do you get sound input/output and control with USB instead? Seems doable to me, if you reverse the roles. The iPod-like device would be the host, and the radio or car the device. USB covers audio and input already, so the radio or car would only have to pretend it's a sound card, and a keyboard or mouse or joystick. Have it include or emulate a USB hub. The radio can even give storage and networking to the iPod-like, I guess.
Maybe missing in that scheme : the device has to charge the host! It's covered by "PD aware" USB.
Wikipedia says the charging spec is from 2007. Which is an eternity ago, I have trouble realizing that 2007 was six years ago lol. As you mentioned the late 90s, I thought you were talking about simply providing reliable 500 mA on 5V. Lowest power mode is 100 mA max draw (a completely dumb device, like a tiny lamp or fan can use that on any port I guess). I mixed things up.
I could read that Asus TF700 can do up to 15V/1.2A. I guess the vast majority of consumers stay at 5V, though. Of course this is totally illegal (in specs and computer parlance) and restricted to one product or family of products. It also seems like it's a proprietary connector that still accept USB cables so perhaps it's not quite USB at all. Out of specs stuff and unusual cabling/connectors make it harder to know what we're talking of, a "HDMI on USB" connector is not so different.
AmiMoJo corrected me about "charging port" specification (and well you, as well), I think I was wrong. I'm under the impression that you may have a 2A device, a 2A charger and they could fail to handshake and end up at 500 mA at worst, or something like 1A or 1.5A. Or maybe that would happen with some old stuff, older than the spec.
Standardized USB charging doesn't really exist, though. 500 mA on 5 volts is universal and of course it's slow (may even be questionable if you want to use a device and charge it at the same time). So you have myriads of proprietary implementations where the device and charger will negotiate to have more amps or volts or both. This can lead to a bad user experience, if you use a cable or charger that will only allow you low watts. That's the biggest rationale I can see for the Apple connector.
There is a recent spec, USB Power Delivery, which will at last bring order to the mess and has multiple profiles like 10 watts, 36 watts, 60 watts, and 100 watts though that latter seems insane. Or USB 3 can be a band-aid, as it specifies 900 mA I think.
To make the Kinect work (version 1.0) Microsoft gathered thousands upon thousands, possibly millions of data points, processed the images, checked the results etc. and after zillions of computations ended with digested data and some algorithms that use it, giving an accurate result in real time.
From reading the abstract I'm under the impression that Google basically did the same thing ; it's trading computation for memory use. The "hashes" of what the camera see match somehow with the digested data they amassed and thus the object gets classified. They do mention the training data.
represents a speed-up of approximately 20,000 times - four orders of magnitude - when compared with performing the convolutions explicitly on the same hardware. While mean average precision over the full set of 100,000 object classes is around 0.16 due in large part to the challenges in gathering training data and collecting ground truth for so many classes, we achieve a mAP of at least 0.20 on a third of the classes and 0.30 or better on about 20% of the classes.
I can't comment further on this, dunno if that new Google thing is basically/fundementally the same concept used in the Kinect or if there are relevant differences, other than scale.
A nitpick, I think that any optical format that replaces Bluray disc would be a Bluray disc, such as a 100GB triple layer version with a higher supported sustained reading speed. That will piss off consumers though : maybe you need such a scheme (possibly with four or five layers) where the first layer or two can be read by a regular Bluray player, containing an usual h264 movie, and h265 version is on the bottom layers.. Is that possible at all?
The thing is h264 is maybe too entrenched, it took many years to have many millions of devices supporting it and that gives you a big install base that people don't necessarily want to replace (not everyone is the middle class american with "drawer full of smartphones"). And even then many old PCs aren't quite up to the task yet - the kind that barely manage youtube 480p or even 360p.
MP3 files are still commonly used, even though they're clearly inferior and using AAC or OGG is a comparatively much simpler problem. I still even watch a lot of xvid. I can imagine the market will stick to h264 for a long time, like Windows XP stuck and still sticks around. Even if h265 is adopted it will mean content providers and hosts will have to dual encode to h264 and h265 for everything, increasing storage and encoding hardware costs.
I don't understand much, are you telling me you can change permissions when an application is updated? How about doing that whenever I want? Lock it down hard, granular enough (not "all or nothing" options i.e. an app that can access both the internet and my offline music shouldn't access my pics or text data) I'm also under the impression that Android devices stop receiving updates after a year or so and thus end up with unfixable security vulnerabilities.
I don't troll, I never owned an Android device so I don't know how much it is. I had the original Game Boy (eventually with a flash cartridge and the writer you connect on a PC's parallel port), a J2ME phone ten years ago (until lost or broken). I've never had another handheld computer yet.
And sorry for glossing on your last paragraph. I have no incentive to get into the Apple "ecosystem" since I don't have any Apple product. RT apps may become a bit more common after Windows 8.1 is released (I have an understanding that RT and Metro are the same thing) Also, maybe a fun thing would be to run Firefox OS on a tablet. ROFL, constantly updated browser/pseudo OS, media player, document viewer. See if I care. No native apps to worry about.
That's what pisses me off about RT. You could port your existing apps with a tweak and a re-compile (And probably some quick hacking to make the UI more touch friendly). Anyone could make really great software for the thing. There is even proof shipping right on the thing, the entire Microsoft fucking office suite! And you can't touch it. Everything you and your end users want, and it's locked up so MS can be like Apple. (FYI you can port your own 'desktop' apps with a re-compile.. But you have to jailbreak your RT device to run them)
I agree the concept is inane and incredible, that would be like including the whole DirectX stack in Windows but only allowing Minesweeper and Solitaire to use it. (commercial games have to use software rendering and their own libaries for input and sound, in that contrieved example) What I don't understand is the latter point, though. So, it's fully locked but you can jailbreak it? That makes it the same as an ipad, thus. I don't read as much complaint about the IOS gear. I would choose a Surface over an ipad (I don't see what the fuss is about ipad, looks like a grid of icons. Boring! and I don't want to run Itunes or run some random ipod managing software)
Of course, a better device might be one that allows to run Ubuntu Touch or KDE tablet (with dual/multiple booting, even). There's Android 4.x but it confuses me : I can read you can configure an app's permission only once and then they're frozen? (so an app would be stuck in "spyware mode" if you allowed it once). I don't understand the hell of that. So far, I don't use any IOS, Android or RT device. The linux stuff isn't available yet (preview/alpha of work in progress doesn't count)
If I need a quick fix or have had a vegetable-free day or just because I feel like it I will eat an orange, thanks. I get them in a string bag of 1.5kg or 2kg for about 2 euros (price varies slightly) and are probably not of very high quality but decent enough to be eaten, most times. Bananas are great though they don't serve the exact same purpose (they can make you feel good if you haven't eaten anything at all) I have canned vegetables and dehydrated soup, too. That's all a bit "junk food", at least in terms of industrial agriculture, low cost and availability. With more money I would buy better fruit and vegetable. There's also tomato juice and others. Why pills then?
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Same but I use them twice or thrice, or rather some non integer number I never keep track of.
Forget about Europa, crashing into Jupiter proper would be an awesome and fun suicide. How does the cloud cover looks like when seen firsthand, just above it then inside it? Are you better off after crossing the radiation belts (radiation wise) and how far/how long can you survive exactly.
I wondered WTF you are talking about with "bionic", bionic means neural implants or robotic hand attached to your body or whatever. You probably need to capitalize that, word, i.e. the Bionic C libraries.
Else, that's an instructive read.
Go back 2,000 years and you'll find that the level of behavior we all find barbaric (crucifiction, torture, rape-as-war-tactic and many others) were very common all across the world. What you'll find, though, is that the societies that systematically started moving away from them the hardest are the ones that embraced monotheism of the Judao-Christian line.
Even very moderate reading about the WW2 Eastern front makes me feel a Judeo-Christian line won't necessarily shield you much or at all from that crap. That was happening only 70 years ago. Maybe we just got lucky (speaking for Europe/US), we got rich and were shielded by nuclear weapons and so we were mostly freed of misery and war.
No, Iran doesn't build nuclear weapons, or at least that's what the three-letter-agencies collectively say.
If they really wanted nukes they could have spared themselves all the attention, rage and issues from the uranium centrifuges program and just have gone plutonium like Israel, South Africa and North Korea did.
I believe their nuclear program is for generating electricity, and pissing contest (like e.g. the Chinese space station but easier and more useful)
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I think there are about 100 planets (plus or minus one or two orders of magnitude) with complex life in our galaxy, meaning multi-cellular life, or even just unicellular beings with a nucleus.
So many things can fuck up the life : a planet tidally locked to the sun, that's not very comfortable. Extinction-level meteor impact every couple million years, because the gas giants are badly placed or something. Unstable sun. Lack of a strong magnetosphere, so unusual big solar flares tend to kill your life too often (at least the land based one). Lack of a moon said to lead to the axial tilt varying too much. Planet rotating too slow (see Venus where the day is longer than the year) : it's freezing cold at night or too hot in the day or both. Perfect planetary system not suffering any of this.. in a violent neighborhood with supernovae and gamma ray bursts.
So, maybe you have a number of actually suitable planets or moons. Some of them are basically stucked to marine life or just bacteria (possibly highly evolved bacteria, but still). Others may have some intelligent-but-not-so-quite life : Earth ruled by the dinosaurs, or what would Earth be if there hadn't been an ecosystem somewhere where primates evolved.
Some may have an industrial civilization, which seems to quickly appear when language is evolved.
It's likely that industrial civilizations are separated by many thousands light-years from each other, and you would have to be extraordinary lucky to have one 100 to 200 light-years away, which is practically next door.
Does Amazon treat them well?, for starts no guarantee of employment, total hour flexibility - they can fire you at will, reduce your hours, change your shift at will then make you work 12 hours per day at a whim. Everyone permanently on an ejection seat. So it's set up with fear, abuse and "competition" (read hatred) between workers that have to fight for the crumbs and live in fear of going homeless or hungry.
It's also a job of running around with boxes and maintaining very high productivity all day - doing that more than 8 hours is a bit insane - so I guess the work week is little more than commute/work/sleep. It's not a horrible thing per se and I do share your concerned that manual work is undervalued - which is a symptom of the general hatred towards the working class in the US.
But I'm not sure you can disconnect the issue of wage. The job barely pays for the needed food intake, barely affording to be in good enough shape for the work is somewhat part of the working conditions. It's also amazing that $10.50 is "above the minimum wage" or that minimum wages are not adjusted for inflation. You people need a nice week-long general strike involving a few million people, with stores and fast-food joints not functioning, garbage piling up, trucks blocking the highway ramps, that sort of things.
So you provided your daughter with comfortable housing and food and education, in a place or near a place she could sell donuts, and gave her advice (maybe there are hurried white collar guys that can afford to casually buy donuts and coffee, and that makes their day happier)
I'd be a fool to call this priviledges but those little things can make a huge difference vs not even having them. Esp. when youth can't get a first job (been like that in my country for a decade or more, in the US it's becoming real but is very recent. It's called mass unemployment).
I don't know what's wrong with these people. I can light a cigarette with one hand, watch a movie with one hand etc.
Smoking at the wheel doesn't use your attention, and is even somewhat beneficial next to suffering from withdrawal symptom. It's not more dangerous than using a stick shift, which is legal. Of course people are assholes, or are too dumb to figure out they should open the ashtray before smoking and put the butt into ashtray.
By your reasoning fiddling with radio, A/C controls should not be done and I agree it's kind of dangerous (esp. if unfamiliar with the controls) and hell, merely listening to talk shows, radio news etc. is a problem, moreso than smoking at the wheel.
That robot will be rejected from a Fine Arts academy, failing the entrance exam twice, and from disgust and despise will try to take over the world instead.
Please, Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. It was only done on paper too and there's no evidence for anything else.
Taliban will not win the war, they do guerrilla warfare on their territory and I don't quite see how they can invade the rest of the country but if they did the US is ready to intervene, seize the nuclear weapons and get them out of the country.
You sound like some nut like Netanyahu, some concerns are real but beware of parroting lies made for domestic Israeli or US consumption.
wow, I didn't know the woman died, as the news blurb plain doesn't say it! I failed to read the headline somehow, and didn't read TFA of course.
This could be a fun connector to use once the patent runs out. I even have it on a small Philips stereo but I can't use it because legal threats prevent compatible media players being made.
It has a serial port, though. That doesn't seem "completely analog" to me.
How do you get sound input/output and control with USB instead? Seems doable to me, if you reverse the roles. The iPod-like device would be the host, and the radio or car the device. USB covers audio and input already, so the radio or car would only have to pretend it's a sound card, and a keyboard or mouse or joystick. Have it include or emulate a USB hub. The radio can even give storage and networking to the iPod-like, I guess.
Maybe missing in that scheme : the device has to charge the host! It's covered by "PD aware" USB.
Wikipedia says the charging spec is from 2007. Which is an eternity ago, I have trouble realizing that 2007 was six years ago lol. As you mentioned the late 90s, I thought you were talking about simply providing reliable 500 mA on 5V. Lowest power mode is 100 mA max draw (a completely dumb device, like a tiny lamp or fan can use that on any port I guess). I mixed things up.
I could read that Asus TF700 can do up to 15V/1.2A. I guess the vast majority of consumers stay at 5V, though.
Of course this is totally illegal (in specs and computer parlance) and restricted to one product or family of products.
It also seems like it's a proprietary connector that still accept USB cables so perhaps it's not quite USB at all. Out of specs stuff and unusual cabling/connectors make it harder to know what we're talking of, a "HDMI on USB" connector is not so different.
AmiMoJo corrected me about "charging port" specification (and well you, as well), I think I was wrong. I'm under the impression that you may have a 2A device, a 2A charger and they could fail to handshake and end up at 500 mA at worst, or something like 1A or 1.5A. Or maybe that would happen with some old stuff, older than the spec.
Standardized USB charging doesn't really exist, though. 500 mA on 5 volts is universal and of course it's slow (may even be questionable if you want to use a device and charge it at the same time). So you have myriads of proprietary implementations where the device and charger will negotiate to have more amps or volts or both.
This can lead to a bad user experience, if you use a cable or charger that will only allow you low watts. That's the biggest rationale I can see for the Apple connector.
There is a recent spec, USB Power Delivery, which will at last bring order to the mess and has multiple profiles like 10 watts, 36 watts, 60 watts, and 100 watts though that latter seems insane. Or USB 3 can be a band-aid, as it specifies 900 mA I think.
To make the Kinect work (version 1.0) Microsoft gathered thousands upon thousands, possibly millions of data points, processed the images, checked the results etc. and after zillions of computations ended with digested data and some algorithms that use it, giving an accurate result in real time.
From reading the abstract I'm under the impression that Google basically did the same thing ; it's trading computation for memory use. The "hashes" of what the camera see match somehow with the digested data they amassed and thus the object gets classified. They do mention the training data.
represents a speed-up of approximately 20,000 times - four orders of magnitude - when compared with performing the convolutions explicitly on the same hardware. While mean average precision over the full set of 100,000 object classes is around 0.16 due in large part to the challenges in gathering training data and collecting ground truth for so many classes, we achieve a mAP of at least 0.20 on a third of the classes and 0.30 or better on about 20% of the classes.
I can't comment further on this, dunno if that new Google thing is basically/fundementally the same concept used in the Kinect or if there are relevant differences, other than scale.
A nitpick, I think that any optical format that replaces Bluray disc would be a Bluray disc, such as a 100GB triple layer version with a higher supported sustained reading speed. That will piss off consumers though : maybe you need such a scheme (possibly with four or five layers) where the first layer or two can be read by a regular Bluray player, containing an usual h264 movie, and h265 version is on the bottom layers.. Is that possible at all?
The thing is h264 is maybe too entrenched, it took many years to have many millions of devices supporting it and that gives you a big install base that people don't necessarily want to replace (not everyone is the middle class american with "drawer full of smartphones"). And even then many old PCs aren't quite up to the task yet - the kind that barely manage youtube 480p or even 360p.
MP3 files are still commonly used, even though they're clearly inferior and using AAC or OGG is a comparatively much simpler problem. I still even watch a lot of xvid. I can imagine the market will stick to h264 for a long time, like Windows XP stuck and still sticks around. Even if h265 is adopted it will mean content providers and hosts will have to dual encode to h264 and h265 for everything, increasing storage and encoding hardware costs.
I don't understand much, are you telling me you can change permissions when an application is updated? How about doing that whenever I want? Lock it down hard, granular enough (not "all or nothing" options i.e. an app that can access both the internet and my offline music shouldn't access my pics or text data)
I'm also under the impression that Android devices stop receiving updates after a year or so and thus end up with unfixable security vulnerabilities.
I don't troll, I never owned an Android device so I don't know how much it is. I had the original Game Boy (eventually with a flash cartridge and the writer you connect on a PC's parallel port), a J2ME phone ten years ago (until lost or broken). I've never had another handheld computer yet.
And sorry for glossing on your last paragraph. I have no incentive to get into the Apple "ecosystem" since I don't have any Apple product. RT apps may become a bit more common after Windows 8.1 is released (I have an understanding that RT and Metro are the same thing)
Also, maybe a fun thing would be to run Firefox OS on a tablet. ROFL, constantly updated browser/pseudo OS, media player, document viewer. See if I care. No native apps to worry about.
That's what pisses me off about RT. You could port your existing apps with a tweak and a re-compile (And probably some quick hacking to make the UI more touch friendly). Anyone could make really great software for the thing. There is even proof shipping right on the thing, the entire Microsoft fucking office suite! And you can't touch it. Everything you and your end users want, and it's locked up so MS can be like Apple. (FYI you can port your own 'desktop' apps with a re-compile.. But you have to jailbreak your RT device to run them)
I agree the concept is inane and incredible, that would be like including the whole DirectX stack in Windows but only allowing Minesweeper and Solitaire to use it. (commercial games have to use software rendering and their own libaries for input and sound, in that contrieved example)
What I don't understand is the latter point, though. So, it's fully locked but you can jailbreak it? That makes it the same as an ipad, thus.
I don't read as much complaint about the IOS gear. I would choose a Surface over an ipad (I don't see what the fuss is about ipad, looks like a grid of icons. Boring! and I don't want to run Itunes or run some random ipod managing software)
Of course, a better device might be one that allows to run Ubuntu Touch or KDE tablet (with dual/multiple booting, even).
There's Android 4.x but it confuses me : I can read you can configure an app's permission only once and then they're frozen? (so an app would be stuck in "spyware mode" if you allowed it once). I don't understand the hell of that. So far, I don't use any IOS, Android or RT device. The linux stuff isn't available yet (preview/alpha of work in progress doesn't count)
If I need a quick fix or have had a vegetable-free day or just because I feel like it I will eat an orange, thanks. I get them in a string bag of 1.5kg or 2kg for about 2 euros (price varies slightly) and are probably not of very high quality but decent enough to be eaten, most times.
Bananas are great though they don't serve the exact same purpose (they can make you feel good if you haven't eaten anything at all)
I have canned vegetables and dehydrated soup, too. That's all a bit "junk food", at least in terms of industrial agriculture, low cost and availability. With more money I would buy better fruit and vegetable. There's also tomato juice and others. Why pills then?