I've noticed that some of the corporate proponents of net neutrality also seem to be the ones wanting to control what third-party content can and can't appear.
When people ask me if I believe that life begins at conception, I tell them that I believe that life begins at consciousness. To which they sometimes respond, "Well, some people never reach consciousness." Yes, exactly.
Totally agree. I cringe watching quadcopter pilots use just their thumbs on the joysticks. It may not be an actual XBox controller though. I may be a mil-spec version with a much higher resolution ADC. What this case illustrates is how crappy, inefficient bits of technology become entrenched. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists who were so fast as to jam mechanical typewriters (millenials won't know what those are;-). But more efficient keyboard designs never caught on. Sometimes, a concept should have died because of a crappy user-interface. Entering a text message on a 3x4 flip phone should have killed the whole concept. But two things happened. I was once driving my niece to a friend's house and I heard music coming from the back seat. I asked, "Are you playing music on your phone?" She said, "No, I'm texting." That told me that she was so fast at it that the DTMF tones sounded like music. Fortunately, the touch screen user-interface made texting less ridiculous.
Even if the censorship legislation were to be removed, it doesn't prevent the beneficiaries of Net Neutrality from censoring content THEY don't like. Ultimately, Net Neutrality is a redistribution of power.
Well, apparently Apple has figured out better OLED technology with the Super Retina display. They also appear to be making the right decision on wireless charging by adopting the Qi (pronounced "chee") standard instead of trying to invent their own.
Honestly, some of these ballyhooed features are a big yawn. Edge-to-edge display? Why? Your hand will be covering some of it. Wireless charging? Meh. Until it can charge from across the room, it's not that important. Dual cameras? What are you doing with them? The magic is in the software. OLED should have been ubiquitous by now. I saw OLED displays 10+ years ago. Make me one for my MacBook Pro (and make it 17 inches, please).
The problem I have with battery technology development is that it doesn't make it to the average consumer for years because one industry controls it for the first few years. Lithium Sulfur looks great. 2 to 4 times the energy density of Lipo. But I won't be able to buy packs for my quadcopter until the automotive industry is done using it.
Barbie pink is not a Pantone color and can't be produced exactly on a CMYK printer. The color is a custom layer on the packaging. So that's one way to protect yourself albeit an expensive one.
One good thing that would come out of this is that the autonomous forklift wouldn't use somebody's crates as an alternate set of brakes. You'd also eliminate forklift operators' propensity to practice jousting on crates.
I prefer the term Renaissance Man from a time when luminaries dabbled in everything. Having a broad range of knowledge makes you a better leader because you don't get tunnel vision. It allows you to see connections between various subjects and to come up with ideas that are greater than the parts. If deeper knowledge is required, you hire someone who has that particular skill.
Samsung has this new IoT fridge that has cameras inside it ostensibly to allow you to see what's in your fridge while you're out food shopping so you don't forget something or buy something you already have. Ok, but who else can see that video feed? Will you get e-mails telling you that you're eating too much junk food and not enough kale?
Sure, electric cars save a lot of money...if gasoline costs $5 a gallon. This isn't that much different. The math only works because the cost of health care has gotten way out of control.
I want to know where all of these people cheering WordPress and GoDaddy were when ISIS was beheading people and posting it all over the internet. Where were these people when left wing groups were posting anti-cop rhetoric and inciting riots? Where were they when people were making movies depicting the assassination of a sitting president (not Obama)?
Every concept conceived by humans can be used for both good and evil. Banning, regulating, or otherwise trying to control technology is a pointless exercise because ultimately, some human gets to decide what is good and what is evil.
What this report fails to point out is that there will be a big associated economic boom because of Foxconn. Lots of related businesses will open up shop in the area and lots of supporting businesses e.g. retail will open up because those employees have to buy stuff somewhere. And there will be infrastructure work too. Stuff like this doesn't happen in a bubble. You take a look at a major economic event like discovery of gold in the Yukon. Fortunes were made supporting the gold mining. Levi's jeans exists because of it, for example. The smart play is to invest in the companies that will be needed to support Foxconn's operations there.
Being nice to d-bags only gives them permission to continue being d-bags. Same applies to Maduro, North Korean, Putin, Iran, ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram. That last only always reminds me of "Temple of Doom"
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I've noticed that some of the corporate proponents of net neutrality also seem to be the ones wanting to control what third-party content can and can't appear.
Praxis?
When people ask me if I believe that life begins at conception, I tell them that I believe that life begins at consciousness. To which they sometimes respond, "Well, some people never reach consciousness." Yes, exactly.
Totally agree. I cringe watching quadcopter pilots use just their thumbs on the joysticks. It may not be an actual XBox controller though. I may be a mil-spec version with a much higher resolution ADC. ;-). But more efficient keyboard designs never caught on.
What this case illustrates is how crappy, inefficient bits of technology become entrenched. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists who were so fast as to jam mechanical typewriters (millenials won't know what those are
Sometimes, a concept should have died because of a crappy user-interface. Entering a text message on a 3x4 flip phone should have killed the whole concept. But two things happened. I was once driving my niece to a friend's house and I heard music coming from the back seat. I asked, "Are you playing music on your phone?" She said, "No, I'm texting." That told me that she was so fast at it that the DTMF tones sounded like music. Fortunately, the touch screen user-interface made texting less ridiculous.
Even if the censorship legislation were to be removed, it doesn't prevent the beneficiaries of Net Neutrality from censoring content THEY don't like. Ultimately, Net Neutrality is a redistribution of power.
I saw what you did there.
Well, apparently Apple has figured out better OLED technology with the Super Retina display.
They also appear to be making the right decision on wireless charging by adopting the Qi (pronounced "chee") standard instead of trying to invent their own.
Honestly, some of these ballyhooed features are a big yawn. Edge-to-edge display? Why? Your hand will be covering some of it. Wireless charging? Meh. Until it can charge from across the room, it's not that important. Dual cameras? What are you doing with them? The magic is in the software. OLED should have been ubiquitous by now. I saw OLED displays 10+ years ago. Make me one for my MacBook Pro (and make it 17 inches, please).
The problem I have with battery technology development is that it doesn't make it to the average consumer for years because one industry controls it for the first few years. Lithium Sulfur looks great. 2 to 4 times the energy density of Lipo. But I won't be able to buy packs for my quadcopter until the automotive industry is done using it.
Because Rule 34.
skyvector.com shows all TFRs. I'm not seeing any over Houston other than a very tiny spot.
Mmm..cheekan. - Leeloo
Unless you're running a website that some people don't approve of.
Does all the money go to the singer? Does the AI have representation? Does the AI make flaky demands like no brown M&Ms in the green room?
Barbie pink is not a Pantone color and can't be produced exactly on a CMYK printer. The color is a custom layer on the packaging. So that's one way to protect yourself albeit an expensive one.
One good thing that would come out of this is that the autonomous forklift wouldn't use somebody's crates as an alternate set of brakes. You'd also eliminate forklift operators' propensity to practice jousting on crates.
I prefer the term Renaissance Man from a time when luminaries dabbled in everything. Having a broad range of knowledge makes you a better leader because you don't get tunnel vision. It allows you to see connections between various subjects and to come up with ideas that are greater than the parts. If deeper knowledge is required, you hire someone who has that particular skill.
Samsung has this new IoT fridge that has cameras inside it ostensibly to allow you to see what's in your fridge while you're out food shopping so you don't forget something or buy something you already have. Ok, but who else can see that video feed? Will you get e-mails telling you that you're eating too much junk food and not enough kale?
Sure, electric cars save a lot of money...if gasoline costs $5 a gallon. This isn't that much different. The math only works because the cost of health care has gotten way out of control.
I want to know where all of these people cheering WordPress and GoDaddy were when ISIS was beheading people and posting it all over the internet. Where were these people when left wing groups were posting anti-cop rhetoric and inciting riots? Where were they when people were making movies depicting the assassination of a sitting president (not Obama)?
It's pretty simple, force DJI to abandon its Big Brother attitude and open-source their products just like 3DR did with the Solo.
Every concept conceived by humans can be used for both good and evil. Banning, regulating, or otherwise trying to control technology is a pointless exercise because ultimately, some human gets to decide what is good and what is evil.
Not Russia in general. Putin.
Iran seems to be too much of a closed society to point strictly at the mullahs.
What this report fails to point out is that there will be a big associated economic boom because of Foxconn. Lots of related businesses will open up shop in the area and lots of supporting businesses e.g. retail will open up because those employees have to buy stuff somewhere. And there will be infrastructure work too. Stuff like this doesn't happen in a bubble. You take a look at a major economic event like discovery of gold in the Yukon. Fortunes were made supporting the gold mining. Levi's jeans exists because of it, for example. The smart play is to invest in the companies that will be needed to support Foxconn's operations there.
Being nice to d-bags only gives them permission to continue being d-bags. Same applies to Maduro, North Korean, Putin, Iran, ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram. That last only always reminds me of "Temple of Doom"