That's mainly because most people listened to their tapes on walkmen, whose pitch would change as you walked around with them. A decent home deck could sound great.
tl;dr - Yeah having to fast forward and rewind was annoying, but they sounded pretty good if you didn't buy the absolute cheapest cassettes you could find, and paid attention to what you were doing when recording.
Kuka and Fanuc have been working on this for years. The current tech uses capacitive plates to detect when a robot hits something that isn't supposed to be there. It can come to a complete halt in a ridiculous time frame, something like 1/1000 of a second. Fast enough that, if it's traveling full speed and hits your shirt, it will stop before hitting your skin. Lidar will be a nice addition, but I wouldn't rely on it alone.
The problem here is that he signed this freedom on this particular issue away voluntarily to avoid penalties for specific infractions. He's in violation of a contract he signed.
It isn't even necessarily about the agreement. If you are an officer of a company, *all* of your public statements are considered to be communications to shareholders. Unless you disclaim something first, saying you are going to produce 500,000 cars this year is basically a promise to shareholders that you are going to build 500,000 cars this year. In the annual report, the range was 350,000 - 500,000. So now he's committed Tesla to the higher number. If they don't hit that number, the stockholders have grounds to sue.
This is what got him in trouble before. His excuse was some hand waving and "oh you know I was just saying stuff," which is the kind of legal defense that gets you, best case scenario, sued into oblivion or, worst case, thrown in jail by the SEC.
When your automated assembly line fails and you rely on out-of-process-import-workers-from-another-line-and-final-assembly-in-tents technology, you are going to run into quality problems.
So you have a GPL formally verified microkernel. You need to build it into a usable system. You need an SoC that it supports, and you need to provide a lot of services to the microkernel to make it do anything useful.
That's the whole point of L4. It's currently in use in production systems. The "usable system" bits are the libraries that are BSD 2-Clause.
The solution is the same as for secure code - defence in depth. Make sure that one failure won't literally crash the system. The kernel and OS can provide a lot of services to enable that in a way that is testable and doesn't result in every developer trying to do their own thing, which as we know is always a bad idea for crypto and the same applies to a lot of safety critical stuff.
This is also the point of L4. Strict separation of even low-level components so that if a network driver crashes it doesn't take down the rest of the OS.
My point is that there is going to be a lot of work done on the Linux side of things just verifying the kernel stays in a sane state during any of these types of random, corner-case hardware events. L4 is designed from the ground up to handle this stuff. The formal verification stuff just means it's already been proven to work as-is.
London is also trying to roll out facial recognition, tied into a database that tracks movements. They are basically trying to build The Machine from Person Of Interest, that tracks everyone using cameras and cell phones to predict crimes. The difference being, in Person of Interest, the designer made it so you couldn't "direct" the Machine - it only spat out the ID of potential terrorists. London's technology is totally unencumbered by such fail-safes.
Uranium gives off alpha radiation, which is effectively stopped by the layer of dead skin cells on your body. If you ground it up into a talcum-powder consistency and snorted it, then you'd be in trouble, but anything less than that and you're fine.
and surprisingly many were filmed on grainy 35mm analog film, which is nowhere near actual 4k quality.
You're right, 35mm is *much* higher resolution then 4K. 4K translates to roughly 2.1 megapixels. 35mm film can resolve the equivalent ~90 megapixels. If a 35mm transfer looks overly grainy or soft, then it's a bad transfer.
The other question I didn't see an answer to, is what do you have to do to get the highest exposure? If your throwing around a figure like 41%, you should say well people with this exposure typically got it by...
Inhaling it in aerosol form on a regular basis. The first study that showed a correlation between glyphosate exposure and cancer looked at Spanish farm-workers who sprayed the stuff on their crops regularly and didn't wear a respirator.
So, if there is really a correlation, you have to be exposed to quite a bit of the stuff to make a statistical difference. Spraying it around your yard every once in a while probably won't make a difference.
There was this concept that was en vogue in the 1990s and 2000s called "Social Priming." The idea was, if you are exposed to violence, or bigotry, or sexism, or other anti-social behaviors through media, you were more likely to adopt those behaviors. There were a few influential studies that proved the theory to be true.
Then, a few years ago, there was a bit of a scandal when a group of researchers attempted to re-create these studies and couldn't get the same findings. If I recall correctly, the impetus for some of these re-tests where the dearth of evidence coming from video game violence studies. This study seems to line up with previous findings.
People who use these services for "free" get to do so because of data collection. I'm assuming that California residents also get to use the services for free. Not sure why they are entitled to get money back from these companies as well as free service.
If the subtext to all of this is the affordable housing crisis in California, then build more damn houses.
Reminds me of a quote supposedly given by Willie Sutton, a notorious bank robber. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied "because that's where the money is."
Why do people die in hospitals? Because that's where sick people go. Why do people die after surgery? Because one, surgery carries a certain risk. Two, if they are doing surgery on you, there's probably something wrong with you to begin with.
There are absolutely problems with secondary infections, surgical errors, unnecessary surgeries and the like. but a single statistic doesn't say anything about those things.
I think that was the OPs point. Though, the OP is making a false comparison - a cell phone antenna is an omnidirectional radiator. A proper comparison would be with a MASER run through a waveguide, which a cell phone is most certainly not.
By your reasoning, if I hold a large metal block and connect one part to mains electricity, I will be safe.
Radio waves traveling through the air work differently than electricity moving through a conductor, to the point where RF engineering is a specialized field within electrical engineering.
People freak out about a few mW of RF being pushed though cell phones. Can you imagine the freakout if someone said they were going to build giant towers pushing millions of watts of low-frequency RF blasting out in all directions?
Hey Microsoft. Remember when you made this excellent plugin called Silverlight that let you do.NET development on a web browser? It was actually really cool, and light-years better than Flash or even HTML development at the time. Then HTML5 + canvas caught up quick and you deprecated Silverlight? Well some people are still trying to migrate off of Silverlight. When you are doing giant UI-heavy enterprise apps, this takes time. Therefore, we are still going to be using Internet Explorer because using Silverlight these days means using Internet Explorer.
And I'm not being facetious about Silverlight being awesome. It's support for MVVM was *outstanding* - you could do crazy forms with complex validation rules, dynamic help, the whole lot, just by using linked parameters and zero code-behind on the UI side.
common ground around the basic tenets of net neutrality rules: There should be no blocking or throttling of lawful content.
THERE SHOULD BE NO THROTTLING OR BLOCKING AT ALL. 'Cause the only way to know if there is unlawful content is to LOOK AT THE CONTENT. This is implicitly allowing ISPs to sniff all traffic. No thank you.
For a company with no profits, and with absolutely nothing proprietary that can't be replicated easily as long as you throw money at it to operate at a loss (like Uber does)?
They have a gigantic user base. Just getting someone to use your app in the first place is a massive advantage, and is really the hardest part getting this stuff off of the ground these days. That alone is worth something. Whether it's worth $120 billion is another question.
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That's mainly because most people listened to their tapes on walkmen, whose pitch would change as you walked around with them. A decent home deck could sound great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
tl;dr - Yeah having to fast forward and rewind was annoying, but they sounded pretty good if you didn't buy the absolute cheapest cassettes you could find, and paid attention to what you were doing when recording.
Dammit, I wish we could get somebody like Liz Warren or Bernie in office along with a matching Congress. They'd put a stop to this crap right quick.
Not sure what they would be able to do about a federal appeals court ruling, most of whom were appointed by Obama or Clinton.
Kuka and Fanuc have been working on this for years. The current tech uses capacitive plates to detect when a robot hits something that isn't supposed to be there. It can come to a complete halt in a ridiculous time frame, something like 1/1000 of a second. Fast enough that, if it's traveling full speed and hits your shirt, it will stop before hitting your skin. Lidar will be a nice addition, but I wouldn't rely on it alone.
CPU development was originally financed by the military
First CPU, the 4004, was developed for a calculator
That was the first microprocessor, not CPU. The first small-scale integrated CPUs were designed for missile guidance systems.
The problem here is that he signed this freedom on this particular issue away voluntarily to avoid penalties for specific infractions. He's in violation of a contract he signed.
It isn't even necessarily about the agreement. If you are an officer of a company, *all* of your public statements are considered to be communications to shareholders. Unless you disclaim something first, saying you are going to produce 500,000 cars this year is basically a promise to shareholders that you are going to build 500,000 cars this year. In the annual report, the range was 350,000 - 500,000. So now he's committed Tesla to the higher number. If they don't hit that number, the stockholders have grounds to sue.
This is what got him in trouble before. His excuse was some hand waving and "oh you know I was just saying stuff," which is the kind of legal defense that gets you, best case scenario, sued into oblivion or, worst case, thrown in jail by the SEC.
When your automated assembly line fails and you rely on out-of-process-import-workers-from-another-line-and-final-assembly-in-tents technology, you are going to run into quality problems.
So you have a GPL formally verified microkernel. You need to build it into a usable system. You need an SoC that it supports, and you need to provide a lot of services to the microkernel to make it do anything useful.
That's the whole point of L4. It's currently in use in production systems. The "usable system" bits are the libraries that are BSD 2-Clause.
The solution is the same as for secure code - defence in depth. Make sure that one failure won't literally crash the system. The kernel and OS can provide a lot of services to enable that in a way that is testable and doesn't result in every developer trying to do their own thing, which as we know is always a bad idea for crypto and the same applies to a lot of safety critical stuff.
This is also the point of L4. Strict separation of even low-level components so that if a network driver crashes it doesn't take down the rest of the OS.
My point is that there is going to be a lot of work done on the Linux side of things just verifying the kernel stays in a sane state during any of these types of random, corner-case hardware events. L4 is designed from the ground up to handle this stuff. The formal verification stuff just means it's already been proven to work as-is.
Why not start with a formally verified kernel instead of the relative chaos that is Linux kernel development?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The kernel and proofs are licensed under GPLv2, and tools are BSD 2-clause.
London is also trying to roll out facial recognition, tied into a database that tracks movements. They are basically trying to build The Machine from Person Of Interest, that tracks everyone using cameras and cell phones to predict crimes. The difference being, in Person of Interest, the designer made it so you couldn't "direct" the Machine - it only spat out the ID of potential terrorists. London's technology is totally unencumbered by such fail-safes.
Uranium gives off alpha radiation, which is effectively stopped by the layer of dead skin cells on your body. If you ground it up into a talcum-powder consistency and snorted it, then you'd be in trouble, but anything less than that and you're fine.
and surprisingly many were filmed on grainy 35mm analog film, which is nowhere near actual 4k quality.
You're right, 35mm is *much* higher resolution then 4K. 4K translates to roughly 2.1 megapixels. 35mm film can resolve the equivalent ~90 megapixels. If a 35mm transfer looks overly grainy or soft, then it's a bad transfer.
The other question I didn't see an answer to, is what do you have to do to get the highest exposure? If your throwing around a figure like 41%, you should say well people with this exposure typically got it by ...
Inhaling it in aerosol form on a regular basis. The first study that showed a correlation between glyphosate exposure and cancer looked at Spanish farm-workers who sprayed the stuff on their crops regularly and didn't wear a respirator.
So, if there is really a correlation, you have to be exposed to quite a bit of the stuff to make a statistical difference. Spraying it around your yard every once in a while probably won't make a difference.
There was this concept that was en vogue in the 1990s and 2000s called "Social Priming." The idea was, if you are exposed to violence, or bigotry, or sexism, or other anti-social behaviors through media, you were more likely to adopt those behaviors. There were a few influential studies that proved the theory to be true.
Then, a few years ago, there was a bit of a scandal when a group of researchers attempted to re-create these studies and couldn't get the same findings. If I recall correctly, the impetus for some of these re-tests where the dearth of evidence coming from video game violence studies. This study seems to line up with previous findings.
People who use these services for "free" get to do so because of data collection. I'm assuming that California residents also get to use the services for free. Not sure why they are entitled to get money back from these companies as well as free service.
If the subtext to all of this is the affordable housing crisis in California, then build more damn houses.
Good idea. Then all the yahoos live-streaming the disaster can flood the towers with nonsense traffic.
Maybe have government plans that get priority over the general public?
Reminds me of a quote supposedly given by Willie Sutton, a notorious bank robber. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied "because that's where the money is."
Why do people die in hospitals? Because that's where sick people go. Why do people die after surgery? Because one, surgery carries a certain risk. Two, if they are doing surgery on you, there's probably something wrong with you to begin with.
There are absolutely problems with secondary infections, surgical errors, unnecessary surgeries and the like. but a single statistic doesn't say anything about those things.
I think that was the OPs point. Though, the OP is making a false comparison - a cell phone antenna is an omnidirectional radiator. A proper comparison would be with a MASER run through a waveguide, which a cell phone is most certainly not.
By your reasoning, if I hold a large metal block and connect one part to mains electricity, I will be safe.
Radio waves traveling through the air work differently than electricity moving through a conductor, to the point where RF engineering is a specialized field within electrical engineering.
People freak out about a few mW of RF being pushed though cell phones. Can you imagine the freakout if someone said they were going to build giant towers pushing millions of watts of low-frequency RF blasting out in all directions?
Hey Microsoft. Remember when you made this excellent plugin called Silverlight that let you do .NET development on a web browser? It was actually really cool, and light-years better than Flash or even HTML development at the time. Then HTML5 + canvas caught up quick and you deprecated Silverlight? Well some people are still trying to migrate off of Silverlight. When you are doing giant UI-heavy enterprise apps, this takes time. Therefore, we are still going to be using Internet Explorer because using Silverlight these days means using Internet Explorer.
And I'm not being facetious about Silverlight being awesome. It's support for MVVM was *outstanding* - you could do crazy forms with complex validation rules, dynamic help, the whole lot, just by using linked parameters and zero code-behind on the UI side.
If a surface mount chip goes on your phone, you toss the whole board. Reworking an SMC part would be cost-comparable to buying a new phone.
common ground around the basic tenets of net neutrality rules: There should be no blocking or throttling of lawful content.
THERE SHOULD BE NO THROTTLING OR BLOCKING AT ALL. 'Cause the only way to know if there is unlawful content is to LOOK AT THE CONTENT. This is implicitly allowing ISPs to sniff all traffic. No thank you.
For a company with no profits, and with absolutely nothing proprietary that can't be replicated easily as long as you throw money at it to operate at a loss (like Uber does)?
They have a gigantic user base. Just getting someone to use your app in the first place is a massive advantage, and is really the hardest part getting this stuff off of the ground these days. That alone is worth something. Whether it's worth $120 billion is another question.
One clickbait-y article means they are "infamous?"
Wirecutter seems to like them:
https://thewirecutter.com/revi...
Not a "best" recommendation, but a runner-up nod.