Well, it looks like waymo is way ahead of everyone else, so if google gives an update that they were also overly optimistic, I would take that as the indicator of where the industry is at.
Good to hear. But regarding root, if I have a device that has a root procedure, I'll then be excluded from future ota updates. Worse still, it tries to install and fails and have a non booting device. To get the update you have to disable root, which causes other issues.
I like having a device with root access but they make it a pain in the ass to actually maintain the device if you still want official updates. This doesn't apply if you have a custom rom.
I'm actually surprised that 'I don't remember' worked. Say they look at phone records with the company and see a call made earlier on the day of the arrest. So you remembered your password at 10:38 am, 11:14 am, 12:22 pm, and 2:48 pm, but at 4 pm you don't remember?
It's a huge problem to not be able to get timely updates, or continued support. After a year sometimes you are on your own. Now your device is outdated and you have no recourse to get to the latest version of android.
Only if your device is supported by a rom. And roms are huge deal to make and support specific hardware.
Imagine android was a generic rom and you got drivers from the manufacturers. As long as the driver model didn't break, you could use the original drivers on new android roms.
What is "service choice" and how does Google Talk enable it?
Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today. This means that regardless of whom you choose as your email service provider (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, your school or ISP, etc), you can email anyone who is using another service provider. The same applies to phone service. You can call someone even if they do not use the same phone company as you do. This allows you to choose your service provider based on other more important factors, such as features, quality of service, and price, while still being able to talk to anyone you want.
Unfortunately, the same is not true with many popular IM and VOIP networks today. If the people you want to talk to are all on different IM/VOIP services, you need to sign up for an account on each service and connect to each service to talk to them.
The Google Talk network supports open interoperability with hundreds of other communications service providers through a process known as federation. This means that a user on one service can communicate with users on another service without needing to sign up for, or sign in with, each service.
Have you actually tried it? It works really well. I used this because I always wanted to play the last of us and ended up checking out quite a few other games on the ps3.
I'm not a fanboy of google, and really it's solely developed by them and periodically has an open source snapshot, but what's stopping them from taking a snapshot and running with it? If they do things against the TOS, they'll lose the google apps, but they can do with it as they wish outside of that can't they?
Just not seeing how google's control is stopping them.
I have a nexus player which I like, but if I cast anything to it, or play local content with MX player I get the soap opera effect making a 24 fps movie look like it's at 60. Is it the Nexus player doing this or my TV? I've posted elsewhere and some said it's my TV but if so, wouldn't it do it with everything? Like Netflix YouTube etc.
Why is it a bad thing? let's say for sake of argument that the tech works and it's significantly safer than human drivers. Is it still a bad thing? I read that there are on average 40,000 fatalities due to driving in the US each year. I can only imagine the world wide figure. And that doesn't include devastating accidents where someone is crippled for example and other serious injuries. No solution is perfect but lets say the figures drop to 10,000. Are you still against it? And are you only against it because of tech replacing people? Would you rather the figure stay at 40,000 simply for the sake of keeping humans doing this? (driving in this case)
You say tech is supposed to help people not replace them, I'm sorry but that's pretty much what all technology does. It does what was once previously done by a human. From bank tellers to automotive assembly to farming equipment and on and on. I once read an article talking about technology and it said it's going to eliminate capitalism. Capitalism at it's heart is to pay a human being for goods or services that person provides. Well, technology devalues that work and makes it cheaper.
So if you are against technology replacing people well you are pretty much against technology in general. What was once man work becomes machine work. It's been going on for ages since the invention of the plow, it's just that now we are going to see this accelerate at a very dramatic rate.
IBM needed three years to make it in house, but they only gave themselves one due to the apple threat. Because of this they had to use off the shelf components with the only thing proprietary being the bios. Compaq reverse engineered and the rest is history.
In doing this IBM.created the standard pc buy I often wondered if IBM did have the time how different the picture would be.
To back this further, see the episode the nature of things called lights out!
One I interesting bit they noticed nurses working night shifts had a higher rate of breast cancer. This was suspected to be related to their prolonged elevated melatonin due to too long light exposure. Their solution was to give them glasses filtering out blue light while working.
I always kind of wished this wasn't possible. Has it always been possible? Meaning sites like http://ip-to-country.webhostin... that track this stuff, how do they know some new isp has this block of ip addresses and is from country X? Was this possible in say 1997?
For ex. if a brand new small local isp springs up is there ever a window where their block of ip addresses is not yet geo-located yet?
lol. that is such an asshole comment. I thank everyone else for pointing out my error. And yes I do understand and yes as soon as I read the first reply I realized the leap in my logic was very short-sighted.
But I'd like to present you with today's internet asshole of the day.
The article states that 90% of the people in the outbreak weren't vaccinated. I'm all for vaccines but didn't realize it had a 10 % failure rate. I know herd immunity but still. Is that typical of most vaccines?
Well it's not that it's closed source. I'm sure there are some great closed source sip apps out there; it is that it's a proprietary communications protocol.
I've read numerous slashdot posts on freedom to do what someone wants with hardware they have bought, or hacking the device to expand its capabilities or do something with it that wasn't intended. I'm not much of a tinkerer myself but I always agreed with freedom to do whatever you want with what you own. So how do people feel about this? How could it possibly be prevented?
This isn't even a hack; instead of print these parts it's simply print these which so happen to assemble into a firearm.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, it looks like waymo is way ahead of everyone else, so if google gives an update that they were also overly optimistic, I would take that as the indicator of where the industry is at.
http://infographic.statista.co...
Ignoring their discontent for av's, in a scenario where someone is approaching your vehicle with a weapon coming head on.
Human driver: You might freeze and panic, or you might hit the gas and get out of there, even if getting out of there means hitting the assailant.
Automated driver: The car will just sit there even though your life is being threatened.
But blue light above any other light, regulates are circadian rhythm.
I completely welcome driverless cars coming. I believe they'll save lives, increase productivity, allow the elderly to drive again etc.
One lingering thought always sticks in my head. Someone wants to rob you, well they just stand in front of the car and you will stop. Every time.
Has anyone considering solutions to this?
Good to hear. But regarding root, if I have a device that has a root procedure, I'll then be excluded from future ota updates. Worse still, it tries to install and fails and have a non booting device. To get the update you have to disable root, which causes other issues.
I like having a device with root access but they make it a pain in the ass to actually maintain the device if you still want official updates. This doesn't apply if you have a custom rom.
I'm actually surprised that 'I don't remember' worked. Say they look at phone records with the company and see a call made earlier on the day of the arrest. So you remembered your password at 10:38 am, 11:14 am, 12:22 pm, and 2:48 pm, but at 4 pm you don't remember?
It's a huge problem to not be able to get timely updates, or continued support. After a year sometimes you are on your own. Now your device is outdated and you have no recourse to get to the latest version of android.
Only if your device is supported by a rom. And roms are huge deal to make and support specific hardware.
Imagine android was a generic rom and you got drivers from the manufacturers. As long as the driver model didn't break, you could use the original drivers on new android roms.
I'll post my comment before I post the text. Fuck you google not for abandoning another service, but for making me believe.
From here
https://developers.google.com/...
What is "service choice" and how does Google Talk enable it?
Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today. This means that regardless of whom you choose as your email service provider (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, your school or ISP, etc), you can email anyone who is using another service provider. The same applies to phone service. You can call someone even if they do not use the same phone company as you do. This allows you to choose your service provider based on other more important factors, such as features, quality of service, and price, while still being able to talk to anyone you want.
Unfortunately, the same is not true with many popular IM and VOIP networks today. If the people you want to talk to are all on different IM/VOIP services, you need to sign up for an account on each service and connect to each service to talk to them.
The Google Talk network supports open interoperability with hundreds of other communications service providers through a process known as federation. This means that a user on one service can communicate with users on another service without needing to sign up for, or sign in with, each service.
Have you actually tried it? It works really well. I used this because I always wanted to play the last of us and ended up checking out quite a few other games on the ps3.
I'm not a fanboy of google, and really it's solely developed by them and periodically has an open source snapshot, but what's stopping them from taking a snapshot and running with it? If they do things against the TOS, they'll lose the google apps, but they can do with it as they wish outside of that can't they?
Just not seeing how google's control is stopping them.
What are these images showing that were making the rounds years ago?
https://userscontent2.emaze.co...
And the killer app would be shoes. Imagine being able to print custom running shoes exactly to the size/shape of your foot.
Or at least be able to print foamy insoles and have that new shoe feeling every month.
I have a nexus player which I like, but if I cast anything to it, or play local content with MX player I get the soap opera effect making a 24 fps movie look like it's at 60. Is it the Nexus player doing this or my TV? I've posted elsewhere and some said it's my TV but if so, wouldn't it do it with everything? Like Netflix YouTube etc.
Drives me nuts.
yeah not as bad... you mean on the flipside when it's an OS issue and you're fucked?
Why is it a bad thing? let's say for sake of argument that the tech works and it's significantly safer than human drivers. Is it still a bad thing? I read that there are on average 40,000 fatalities due to driving in the US each year. I can only imagine the world wide figure. And that doesn't include devastating accidents where someone is crippled for example and other serious injuries. No solution is perfect but lets say the figures drop to 10,000. Are you still against it? And are you only against it because of tech replacing people? Would you rather the figure stay at 40,000 simply for the sake of keeping humans doing this? (driving in this case)
You say tech is supposed to help people not replace them, I'm sorry but that's pretty much what all technology does. It does what was once previously done by a human. From bank tellers to automotive assembly to farming equipment and on and on. I once read an article talking about technology and it said it's going to eliminate capitalism. Capitalism at it's heart is to pay a human being for goods or services that person provides. Well, technology devalues that work and makes it cheaper.
So if you are against technology replacing people well you are pretty much against technology in general. What was once man work becomes machine work. It's been going on for ages since the invention of the plow, it's just that now we are going to see this accelerate at a very dramatic rate.
Something you don't hear much of but I want to update for bluetooth 4.0 which win 7 doesn't have.
Completely agree.
IBM needed three years to make it in house, but they only gave themselves one due to the apple threat. Because of this they had to use off the shelf components with the only thing proprietary being the bios. Compaq reverse engineered and the rest is history.
In doing this IBM.created the standard pc buy I often wondered if IBM did have the time how different the picture would be.
To back this further, see the episode the nature of things called lights out!
One I interesting bit they noticed nurses working night shifts had a higher rate of breast cancer. This was suspected to be related to their prolonged elevated melatonin due to too long light exposure. Their solution was to give them glasses filtering out blue light while working.
www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/lights-out
I always kind of wished this wasn't possible. Has it always been possible? Meaning sites like http://ip-to-country.webhostin... that track this stuff, how do they know some new isp has this block of ip addresses and is from country X? Was this possible in say 1997?
For ex. if a brand new small local isp springs up is there ever a window where their block of ip addresses is not yet geo-located yet?
lol. that is such an asshole comment. I thank everyone else for pointing out my error. And yes I do understand and yes as soon as I read the first reply I realized the leap in my logic was very short-sighted.
But I'd like to present you with today's internet asshole of the day.
The article states that 90% of the people in the outbreak weren't vaccinated. I'm all for vaccines but didn't realize it had a 10 % failure rate. I know herd immunity but still. Is that typical of most vaccines?
Well it's not that it's closed source. I'm sure there are some great closed source sip apps out there; it is that it's a proprietary communications protocol.
"Holy shit, it's like there's an actual transaction taking place!"
I have no points, but that's friggin funny.
Thanks for the laugh.
I've read numerous slashdot posts on freedom to do what someone wants with hardware they have bought, or hacking the device to expand its capabilities or do something with it that wasn't intended. I'm not much of a tinkerer myself but I always agreed with freedom to do whatever you want with what you own. So how do people feel about this? How could it possibly be prevented?
This isn't even a hack; instead of print these parts it's simply print these which so happen to assemble into a firearm.
When I first heard of 3d printing I was really impressed and thought of lots of practical applications for this new tech but for some reason I never thought of weapons. Once I heard of that I thought that this crosses a line. I certainly don't want it where someone can just go home and print a gun. And then I read about ammo being printed: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/01/14/gunsmiths-3d-print-high-capacity-ammo-clips-to-thwart-proposed-gun-laws/
This is the first time a new tech that could very well become commonplace in the home has given me pause.
And short of making 3d printers illegal, what could be done even if desired?