That's Google's problem. If they didn't want to deal with the social issues of becoming the internet's de facto official directory, they shouldn't have made themselves the internet's de facto official directory.
...which would be moot were it not for the Google-as-address-bar phenomenon where casual users treat Google like it's the whole internet. Google made this mess for themselves when they became the defacto way of finding things online; they're the internet's index, and editorial decisions they make - even algorithmically - are now part of the infrastructure.
This is a good sign. If someone's showing you technology every year and it's gradually getting bigger and better and eventually starts showing up in products (like LG's TVs) then it's a science and engineering problem that's being advanced. If someone's showing you a technology that never existed before and it's suddenly a whole product, it often means it's so premature it's going to fail and better products will climb over its still-warm corpse towards success, or that it's a scam.
Yeah, normally you'd quote a radius of curvature as an actual unit of length - the radius of the smallest curve the material can take without failing. I'm not sure what "100R" means except something like a translation or transcription error.
The technology is about a hundred years old and its other applications are in determining the health of the body, because it's a friggin' ECG. You know the thing that goes "beep beep" in the background in medical shows? Bingo. If you're terrified of this I should warn you: doctors also have this thing called a stethoscope they can use to determine your body's current state from your breathing!
In the UK we sometimes call £1 coins "beer tokens". (My own golden age of inebriation revolved around a student happy hour where cheap lager was £1 a pint. Good times.)
Prestwick International Airport is modestly famous as the only place in Britain to ever have been visited by Elvis.* If the aliens are ever going to return him, this seems like the obvious place to go.
*He was transferring through on his way home from the war.
I kind of skipped through mentioning it, but for some movies they actually make DVDs and Blu-Rays for critics to view before the film makes it into the theatre. (In case they can't make it to a press screening.) Those sometimes mysteriously wind up on file-sharing sites, so they started watermarking them so that individual copies could be identified later. Although for all I know the practice has stopped by now.
I wonder if noticing that trend around leaks is what gave Hideo Kojima the crazy idea of releasing a vertical slice of MGSV as a "warm-up" game mid-development.
Who's reproducing things poorly? Pirated content these days is either ripped from Blu-Rays sent to critics (who can't make it to a theatre) or the actual theatre-quality data files used in digital projection. It's not only in equal fidelity to the original, it's often in a more convenient format.
I can't speak for movies but I used to download shows where I'd missed episodes, as an alternative to finding a VCR (who even has those?) or waiting six months for a DVD boxed set. It certainly helped me maintain my engagement in the series. I stopped because PVRs became affortable (I got one for free from my broadband provider) and VoD catch up services suddenly became ubiquitous.
Cynically, I think it has more to do with distracting from the £1Bn in private military spending the government's going to announce at the same conference.
Given the accuracy of GPS, it'll probably wind up on your roof, up a tree, or down the chimney, which means it'll still be an improvement over Yodel.*
*Substitute infamously incompetent carrier for your region here.
I kid, but seriously, a mail order that's installing lockers and authorised delivery points every few hundred yards and seriously talking about flying fucking robots as an improvement in service is a damning indictment of the package delivery business.
Jeff Bezos was quoted as saying "C'moooooooooooooooooon!", and promising lawmakers that he would "totally let them have a go driving it" after he did some "sweet loops".
I was under the impression that contrived acronyms were the great American passtime, in much the same way that all British government efforts must sound like evil organisations from James Bond movies (DEFRA, COBRA, OFSTED, the Coal Board).
Let's get crazy for a moment: one of the ideas of space mining is that it lets you get resources for space projects without the difficulty of firing them up from the Earth in the first place. So in principle, you could produce hardware in space from raw products that have never had any owner, using tools that were themselves manufactured in space from materials that have no owner. Does that mean that said hardware is "up for grabs" in perpetuity with no legally recognised owner, until some smartass brings it back to Earth (defeating the whole point of building it in the first place) and claims it as scrap?
Basically if you want to be a cable company that deals with the government at special rates rather than with the content providers for whatever they feel like charging, you have to obey certain government rules. Aereo probably doesn't in its current form.
That all hinges on whether Aereo changes the way it does business so it qualifies for the requisite cable licence, and the channels it wants to rebroadcast give it permission to carry their content, which after months of arguing that it isn't a cable company, and directly antagonising said channels, is probably not terribly likely.
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That's Google's problem. If they didn't want to deal with the social issues of becoming the internet's de facto official directory, they shouldn't have made themselves the internet's de facto official directory.
...which would be moot were it not for the Google-as-address-bar phenomenon where casual users treat Google like it's the whole internet. Google made this mess for themselves when they became the defacto way of finding things online; they're the internet's index, and editorial decisions they make - even algorithmically - are now part of the infrastructure.
Hmm, it's "100R" in the original Korean too.
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This is a good sign. If someone's showing you technology every year and it's gradually getting bigger and better and eventually starts showing up in products (like LG's TVs) then it's a science and engineering problem that's being advanced. If someone's showing you a technology that never existed before and it's suddenly a whole product, it often means it's so premature it's going to fail and better products will climb over its still-warm corpse towards success, or that it's a scam.
Yeah, normally you'd quote a radius of curvature as an actual unit of length - the radius of the smallest curve the material can take without failing. I'm not sure what "100R" means except something like a translation or transcription error.
Because current car technology doesn't do that yet. What it does do is all the driver-assist stuff described in the text.
The technology is about a hundred years old and its other applications are in determining the health of the body, because it's a friggin' ECG. You know the thing that goes "beep beep" in the background in medical shows? Bingo. If you're terrified of this I should warn you: doctors also have this thing called a stethoscope they can use to determine your body's current state from your breathing!
This just goes to show how far behind the times I am on piracy! Maybe the war on home taping is working. :/
In the UK we sometimes call £1 coins "beer tokens". (My own golden age of inebriation revolved around a student happy hour where cheap lager was £1 a pint. Good times.)
Prestwick International Airport is modestly famous as the only place in Britain to ever have been visited by Elvis.* If the aliens are ever going to return him, this seems like the obvious place to go.
*He was transferring through on his way home from the war.
No you see you're framing this as a rational economic problem rather than a moral issue. That's not how Real Business works.
I kind of skipped through mentioning it, but for some movies they actually make DVDs and Blu-Rays for critics to view before the film makes it into the theatre. (In case they can't make it to a press screening.) Those sometimes mysteriously wind up on file-sharing sites, so they started watermarking them so that individual copies could be identified later. Although for all I know the practice has stopped by now.
I wonder if noticing that trend around leaks is what gave Hideo Kojima the crazy idea of releasing a vertical slice of MGSV as a "warm-up" game mid-development.
Who's reproducing things poorly? Pirated content these days is either ripped from Blu-Rays sent to critics (who can't make it to a theatre) or the actual theatre-quality data files used in digital projection. It's not only in equal fidelity to the original, it's often in a more convenient format.
I can't speak for movies but I used to download shows where I'd missed episodes, as an alternative to finding a VCR (who even has those?) or waiting six months for a DVD boxed set. It certainly helped me maintain my engagement in the series. I stopped because PVRs became affortable (I got one for free from my broadband provider) and VoD catch up services suddenly became ubiquitous.
Cynically, I think it has more to do with distracting from the £1Bn in private military spending the government's going to announce at the same conference.
It's Britain, you can only go so much further south and still be building in your own country. ;)
Here's to our upcoming wild west period of new space law, then.
Given the accuracy of GPS, it'll probably wind up on your roof, up a tree, or down the chimney, which means it'll still be an improvement over Yodel.*
*Substitute infamously incompetent carrier for your region here.
I kid, but seriously, a mail order that's installing lockers and authorised delivery points every few hundred yards and seriously talking about flying fucking robots as an improvement in service is a damning indictment of the package delivery business.
Jeff Bezos was quoted as saying "C'moooooooooooooooooon!", and promising lawmakers that he would "totally let them have a go driving it" after he did some "sweet loops".
I was under the impression that contrived acronyms were the great American passtime, in much the same way that all British government efforts must sound like evil organisations from James Bond movies (DEFRA, COBRA, OFSTED, the Coal Board).
It's surprising because she wasn't clear of the disease before she went off her medication, and then went two years without a relapse.
That's what originally excited the doctors: the kid was off her antiretrovirals for two years without relapse.
Let's get crazy for a moment: one of the ideas of space mining is that it lets you get resources for space projects without the difficulty of firing them up from the Earth in the first place. So in principle, you could produce hardware in space from raw products that have never had any owner, using tools that were themselves manufactured in space from materials that have no owner. Does that mean that said hardware is "up for grabs" in perpetuity with no legally recognised owner, until some smartass brings it back to Earth (defeating the whole point of building it in the first place) and claims it as scrap?
Basically if you want to be a cable company that deals with the government at special rates rather than with the content providers for whatever they feel like charging, you have to obey certain government rules. Aereo probably doesn't in its current form.
That all hinges on whether Aereo changes the way it does business so it qualifies for the requisite cable licence, and the channels it wants to rebroadcast give it permission to carry their content, which after months of arguing that it isn't a cable company, and directly antagonising said channels, is probably not terribly likely.