The real story behind $10,000 hammers you hear people joke about in defense & aerospace:
It's a $500 hammer because it's made from premium materials and is designed to handle things most hammers in civilian use would never see, plus $9,500 worth of government-mandated paperwork proving you didn't rip off the government.
I've never seen a flight where they were threatening bumping that they weren't gate-checking bags because every seat was full and there wasn't enough room for carryons.
(Not weight reduction here - bag was still on the plane, just in cargo instead of overhead bins in the passenger compartment.)
It's too bad that despite the chip not being much more expensive (as evidenced by the fact that TX1 consumer products are reasonably priced - the TX1-based Shield ATV is $199 including a controller, the TK1-based Shield Tablet was $299, and $100+ for battery/display makes a lot of sense) or around the same price, the TX1 dev board is 3 times the price of the TK1 dev board. (Jetson TK1 was $192).
I was really hoping for a successor to the Jetson TK1 that used the X1, but this isn't really a successor - despite a different name it's clearly a completely different animal.
I was really looking forward to a Tegra X1 version of the Jetson, but not at $599 and not at 6+ months after the chipset started appearing in consumer products at a significantly lower price.
(The Jetson TK1 was the first K1 device to launch and was priced similar to or below fully assembled consumer products like the SHIELD Tablet.)
Strangely, from what I hear about the local municipalities around there, it would be MUCH easier to get approval to build a gigantic parking garage that just happened to have some RV connections than to get approval for housing.
Apparently Google and Facebook both tried to build out some employee housing and they were denied permits.
Positives: $510/mo for 2-bedroom riverfront apartment in an extremely low-crime area in a beautiful town (Owego) Binghamton actually has a pretty good social scene - my only problem is that I'm living a little too far away. I'm planning on moving closer, costs of living won't go up that much to live much closer to downtown than I do now. I like the outdoors, and there are lots of amazing state parks and even town parks with great hiking trails readily available.
Negatives: Really bad job market. The only two employers in the area that are currently and consistently growing are United Health Services and Binghamton University. (BAE and Lockheed are currently growing but they're both highly cyclical)
A few months ago, AdBlock Plus started getting into a state where there was no blocklist loaded on one machine I use. (Something about my configuration was preventing it from upating, and the old version was having issues with newer browser version I think...)
Did I notice the problem because I started seeing ads all over the place?
Nope. I noticed it because I was wondering why my machine was suddenly crawling to a halt.
Yeah. I know Google is collecting a lot of my data, however I also trust their privacy policy and the documentation they've provided on their architecture, and overall - what Google is doing with my data is overwhelmingly positive. Automagically parsing my flight reservation emails and putting up my flight's departure time and gate on my watch without me going through ANY effort to search is nice. Popping up my store loyalty card when I walk in is nice. Giving me an "accident on your current road" even when I haven't fired up Navigation is nice.
Yeah. This is useful for lots of automated diagnostics functions.
Also, SOME of that data (not all of it) is highly beneficial for augmenting navigation systems (most notably, vehicle speedometer and steering position). Google even explicitly mentioned how this data would be used by Android Auto in a presentation somewhere (I don't have the link to it now...) It's hinted at a bit past one minute in to https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but I'm fairly certain I saw a presentation somewhere explicitly stating that vehicle GPS, steering position, and wheel speed would be used for location sensor fusion.
Yeah. High-current/high-energy-density batteries are, by the nature of how they are designed, prone to catastrophic failure if something causes the components to short together.
It's nearly impossible to make it "not explosive" without also making it "not nearly as useful".
This is partly why one of the more common statistics is fatalities per passenger-mile.
I am fairly certain the 747 wins by a significant margin here as most 747 airframes were used more frequently than the Concorde (more flights per week) and typically flew longer distances (747 was a transpacific workhorse, Concorde was only used for transatlantic flights.)
So a 45-year old plane design (admittedly one that has had a few product refreshes, with another one in the pipes) has achieved more than 60% of the sales of a brand new one - despite supposedly being "headed for retirement".
Yeah. Automotive electronics are designed to be pretty EMP-resistant from the beginning because the ignition coils produce what amounts to small EMPs - and they're connected to the power rails!
Automotive engine compartments are one of the most electrically noisy environments out there.
As far as a "hacker-safe" car - buy a car WITHOUT those snazzy remote management features like uConnect/OnStar/etc. All of the remote compromises out there have used those "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" attack routes.
Um, no, a 1000 unit vial (10 mL of U-100) costs $25 for regular and NPH insulins. (If you're paying more than this, blame the pharmacy. This is one of the few cases where I root for Walmart - they've managed to get Novo onboard with selling Novolin R and N for $25/vial)
Unless you're purchasing Lantus or Novolog/Humalog (which most diabetics including myself are), which are MUCH newer than 1978 and still have active patents. (Some of Lantus' are about to expire or recently expired, but Novartis played some legal games to manage to block generic Lantus from the market until late 2016...) Even after "generics" of the "designer" insulins launch, the FDA's rules on "biosimilars" are going to slow down this market. (IIRC, generic Lantus IS available in India at significantly reduced prices.)
I don't see a single one of these that the pilot definitively violated. "Don't fly near people or stadiums" is the only thing he might have violated, depending on where in this guy's yard it was. (I don't consider shotgun range to be "near enough to be dangerous" - well for danger to people from the aircraft. Obviously the shotgun is dangerous).
What if he was taking pictures of the neighbor's house, at the request of the neighbor? (In fact this is what he claims he was doing.)
The drone pilot claims he was asked by one of the people in the neighborhood to take some pictures. I've done this before.
In the case of the guy with the shotgun - can he confirm that the camera was indeed pointed towards him, as opposed to someone else's house (that someone else who could have given permission and possibly even requested the photography)? Same for the 16 year old who waved at it - did she know for sure that she was seen on camera, or was the camera aimed elsewhere and it's just coincidence the pilot moved the thing for a different camera angle after a bit?
That said, if you're trying to take pictures of friend A's house, and want to get an oblique (from the side view) shot which requires you to be over the neighbor's property but with the camera aimed at A's property - you should probably chat with A's neighbors just to give them a heads up what you're doing.
They mention plans to sell Slashdot Media and SourceForge... Then the rest of the financial report only talks about Slashdot Media and nothing about SF.
Perhaps they realized they utterly destroyed SF to the point where it's an unrecoverable lost cause.
Slashdot Mirror
That's really important here - In this age of multiplayer games, which console their friends have is going to be incredibly important.
Although in reality, this unfortunately winds up why many people seem to have both...
The real story behind $10,000 hammers you hear people joke about in defense & aerospace:
It's a $500 hammer because it's made from premium materials and is designed to handle things most hammers in civilian use would never see, plus $9,500 worth of government-mandated paperwork proving you didn't rip off the government.
I've never seen a flight where they were threatening bumping that they weren't gate-checking bags because every seat was full and there wasn't enough room for carryons.
(Not weight reduction here - bag was still on the plane, just in cargo instead of overhead bins in the passenger compartment.)
It's too bad that despite the chip not being much more expensive (as evidenced by the fact that TX1 consumer products are reasonably priced - the TX1-based Shield ATV is $199 including a controller, the TK1-based Shield Tablet was $299, and $100+ for battery/display makes a lot of sense) or around the same price, the TX1 dev board is 3 times the price of the TK1 dev board. (Jetson TK1 was $192).
I was really hoping for a successor to the Jetson TK1 that used the X1, but this isn't really a successor - despite a different name it's clearly a completely different animal.
The Jetson TK1 sold for $192.
I was really looking forward to a Tegra X1 version of the Jetson, but not at $599 and not at 6+ months after the chipset started appearing in consumer products at a significantly lower price.
(The Jetson TK1 was the first K1 device to launch and was priced similar to or below fully assembled consumer products like the SHIELD Tablet.)
Facebook tried this and I believe so did Google.
Their building permits were denied by the town.
Strangely, from what I hear about the local municipalities around there, it would be MUCH easier to get approval to build a gigantic parking garage that just happened to have some RV connections than to get approval for housing.
Apparently Google and Facebook both tried to build out some employee housing and they were denied permits.
I live about 25 minutes from Binghamton.
Positives:
$510/mo for 2-bedroom riverfront apartment in an extremely low-crime area in a beautiful town (Owego)
Binghamton actually has a pretty good social scene - my only problem is that I'm living a little too far away. I'm planning on moving closer, costs of living won't go up that much to live much closer to downtown than I do now.
I like the outdoors, and there are lots of amazing state parks and even town parks with great hiking trails readily available.
Negatives:
Really bad job market. The only two employers in the area that are currently and consistently growing are United Health Services and Binghamton University. (BAE and Lockheed are currently growing but they're both highly cyclical)
A few months ago, AdBlock Plus started getting into a state where there was no blocklist loaded on one machine I use. (Something about my configuration was preventing it from upating, and the old version was having issues with newer browser version I think...)
Did I notice the problem because I started seeing ads all over the place?
Nope. I noticed it because I was wondering why my machine was suddenly crawling to a halt.
Yeah. I know Google is collecting a lot of my data, however I also trust their privacy policy and the documentation they've provided on their architecture, and overall - what Google is doing with my data is overwhelmingly positive. Automagically parsing my flight reservation emails and putting up my flight's departure time and gate on my watch without me going through ANY effort to search is nice. Popping up my store loyalty card when I walk in is nice. Giving me an "accident on your current road" even when I haven't fired up Navigation is nice.
Yeah. This is useful for lots of automated diagnostics functions.
Also, SOME of that data (not all of it) is highly beneficial for augmenting navigation systems (most notably, vehicle speedometer and steering position). Google even explicitly mentioned how this data would be used by Android Auto in a presentation somewhere (I don't have the link to it now...) It's hinted at a bit past one minute in to https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but I'm fairly certain I saw a presentation somewhere explicitly stating that vehicle GPS, steering position, and wheel speed would be used for location sensor fusion.
"Github does not charge to host projects." - Wrong. A number of github services require a paid account. (Primarily private repositories...)
https://github.com/pricing
He didn't state anything about being divorced, and the situation described sounded more like military deployment than divorce.
Yeah. High-current/high-energy-density batteries are, by the nature of how they are designed, prone to catastrophic failure if something causes the components to short together.
It's nearly impossible to make it "not explosive" without also making it "not nearly as useful".
The problem is that they're trying to make the F-35 replace the A-10 in addition to other aircraft...
This is partly why one of the more common statistics is fatalities per passenger-mile.
I am fairly certain the 747 wins by a significant margin here as most 747 airframes were used more frequently than the Concorde (more flights per week) and typically flew longer distances (747 was a transpacific workhorse, Concorde was only used for transatlantic flights.)
He's comparing ONLY sales in the last 10 years.
So a 45-year old plane design (admittedly one that has had a few product refreshes, with another one in the pipes) has achieved more than 60% of the sales of a brand new one - despite supposedly being "headed for retirement".
Well, at least in the case of The Verge, they are disabling comments to hide their complete lack of professionalism.
If they publish an article which is blatantly WRONG - there's no way for their readers to see that the content is wrong.
https://plus.google.com/+RonAm...
Yeah. Automotive electronics are designed to be pretty EMP-resistant from the beginning because the ignition coils produce what amounts to small EMPs - and they're connected to the power rails!
Automotive engine compartments are one of the most electrically noisy environments out there.
As far as a "hacker-safe" car - buy a car WITHOUT those snazzy remote management features like uConnect/OnStar/etc. All of the remote compromises out there have used those "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" attack routes.
Um, no, a 1000 unit vial (10 mL of U-100) costs $25 for regular and NPH insulins. (If you're paying more than this, blame the pharmacy. This is one of the few cases where I root for Walmart - they've managed to get Novo onboard with selling Novolin R and N for $25/vial)
Unless you're purchasing Lantus or Novolog/Humalog (which most diabetics including myself are), which are MUCH newer than 1978 and still have active patents. (Some of Lantus' are about to expire or recently expired, but Novartis played some legal games to manage to block generic Lantus from the market until late 2016...) Even after "generics" of the "designer" insulins launch, the FDA's rules on "biosimilars" are going to slow down this market. (IIRC, generic Lantus IS available in India at significantly reduced prices.)
I don't see a single one of these that the pilot definitively violated. "Don't fly near people or stadiums" is the only thing he might have violated, depending on where in this guy's yard it was. (I don't consider shotgun range to be "near enough to be dangerous" - well for danger to people from the aircraft. Obviously the shotgun is dangerous).
What if he was taking pictures of the neighbor's house, at the request of the neighbor? (In fact this is what he claims he was doing.)
To play devil's advocate:
The drone pilot claims he was asked by one of the people in the neighborhood to take some pictures. I've done this before.
In the case of the guy with the shotgun - can he confirm that the camera was indeed pointed towards him, as opposed to someone else's house (that someone else who could have given permission and possibly even requested the photography)? Same for the 16 year old who waved at it - did she know for sure that she was seen on camera, or was the camera aimed elsewhere and it's just coincidence the pilot moved the thing for a different camera angle after a bit?
That said, if you're trying to take pictures of friend A's house, and want to get an oblique (from the side view) shot which requires you to be over the neighbor's property but with the camera aimed at A's property - you should probably chat with A's neighbors just to give them a heads up what you're doing.
Have you ever heard of air resistance and terminal velocity?
They mention plans to sell Slashdot Media and SourceForge... Then the rest of the financial report only talks about Slashdot Media and nothing about SF.
Perhaps they realized they utterly destroyed SF to the point where it's an unrecoverable lost cause.
"According to security firm Zimperium a flaw called "Stagefright" in Google's Android operating system"
Um, the flaw isn't called stagefright - the flaw is in a component called stagefright!