If any USA person or company is involved in any way (investor, employee, subcontractor etc) in a launch the government of the USA considers it as something it has jurisdiction over. IIRC, international space treaties actually require signatories it to regulate such activity by their citizens.
Translation: A really really big seagate customer that does video surveillance and analytics ("AI") was not satisfied with drive reliability and performance. Since it was a really really big customer they got seagate to build them a special model. Seagate also sells this model to other customers and their salesdrones got overly excited about the "AI" angle.
Many intelligent people do not feel they need to join any specific organization to mark that fact. Perhaps those who do are more likely to have emotional or mental issues?
Any such study that does not start with a large and unbiased cohort before they even got their IQ tested is close to worthless.
We have the ability to detect materials in such minute amounts that we can find traces of almost anything, anywhere. It is definitely an effective way to generate headlines. But is it meaningful in any real sense? There is some botulinum toxin in the air you breathe. The question is always how much.
We live in a world where virtually everyone has a camera and audio recording device on them at all times. It's no coincidence that people's willingness to believe in UFO reports, for example, has dropped sharply.
Even if some of this is outside the hearing range, any phone should be able to record at least *something*.
Not a single piece of recorded evidence? Count me as extremely skeptical.
The tag is an almost-passive device with tiny power consumption. It can be read by a device with a directional antenna mounted on a pair of binoculars, for example.
Backpack computers designed to provide a VR experience. They are battery powered and without screen or keyboard. But it is a high end PC for gaming. Probably not what you are looking for.
It should be pretty easy to fit the VR headset to provide some nitrous oxide to augment the experience. Actually, and this feature could be great for non-medical VR applications, too...
The signs are mostly a gimmick. The important part is to identify other vehicles to avoid dazzling them while keeping everything else well lit by main beams.
Hundreds of millions of people with reduced night vision that cannot (or should not) drive at night will be able to do it safely.
I was mostly referring to things like i/o architecture, channels, memory and i/o virtualization, nested virtualization, resource management and allocation.
I was born one the same date (... 4 digit slashdot id checks out...). I have been using microcomputers since I was 10. I have never worked at anything other than software and hardware development.
Our contemporary computing ecosystem has evolved from the microcomputers I was born with. They actually have some architectural details that can be traced to the 4004's successor, the 8008.
Our computers are not descendants of the mainframes that came before them. By now, they have acquired many of the advanced features of mainframes. Implemented badly, several decades later. It is fascinating to learn about the history of mainframes. It is also somewhat depressing.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
1. Inventor makes some new and non-obvious improvement to prior art. "I did A with B using C by way of D"
2. In patent application, the patent editor tries to widen the claim to. "A with B using C", "A using C by way of D" or even all the way to the silly and obvious "A".
3. Patent examiner rejects most claims. Some widened claims, beyond what the inventor considered to be his invention, are accepted by the examiner because they really are novel and non-obvious. The patent is now more valuable too inventor (or, more often, his employer) because it covers more things.
This process of trying to extend the claims by making them more general is quite mechanical. Patent editors do it almost automatically and without really trying to think too hard if the result makes much sense.
Sometimes overworked examiners accept silly over-generalized claims on an application and it makes it into a granted patent. It is a serious problem with the system (or a win, if you are the submitting company). Such claims may be overturned later in court, but most patent lawsuits are settled out of court, never challenging such claims because of the costs and risks involved. This makes such over generalized patents a weapon for bullies.
Sometimes, if you are a high-profile company that is under the public eye, people will pick such unexamined claims in a patent application and make them into a silly headline "company X tries to patent obvious thing Y!!!".
But the percentage of miles driven? This number is dominated by vehicles that run all day.
Yes, the vehicles we use for commute and errands can generally be replaced with electrics.
The vehicles for which someone is calculating an ROI run all day and have much bigger engines.
Long haul trucks. Distribution trucks. Farm machines and many others. There is no alternative for diesel fuel for these vehicles and nothing even remotely on the horizon.
If these vehicles stop running billions of people will starve within weeks.
Not just floss. Parachutes, too, suffer from a serious shortage of controlled trials demonstrating their efficacy.
Smith, Gordon CS, and Jill P. Pell. "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials." British Medical Journal 327.7429 (2003): 1459.
A good VR experience (and preventing motion sickness) requires fast response time. This requires low latency of the entire chain from the motion sensing device, through the USB connection, OS process scheduling, scene calculation and rendering and any buffering in the video card and display.
A system that is able to respond quickly can obviously produce more frames per second. But just creating more frames per second without reducing latency will not help the experience feel more convincing (or prevent you from feeling queezy). It will just look a bit smoother.
In playback of canned video latency does not matter much. In fact, generating these in-between images actually increases overall latency as the system has to delay the next image while calculating and displaying the in-between image. As long as an equivalent delay is inserted into the audio nobody notices this. But it won't work for VR.
There is, however, a method to produce faster response without calculating more images per second. The most critical movements are those of the head and the change in the scene from such motions can be approximated by simple panning. It's not perfect, but does work to reduce motion sickness.
What is probably new here is that the wheel surface is not a discontinuous set of smaller wheels - it's a toroidal tire that can rotate on the in-out axis. This requires the surface to stretch considerably and is probably not compatible with the requirements for car tires. This has real applications, but standard passenger cars are probably not one of them. This car demo is, however, a great way to attract attention and, hopefully, investment. A forklift just doesn't have the same dramatic effect.
There will never be a shortage of helium. Only a shortage of really cheap helium.
Helium is continuously produced by alpha decay of radioactive materials inside the earth. It exists in various concentrations in all natural gas reserves.
Some of those reserves (e.g. some wells in Texas or the one now found in Tanzania) have unusually high helium concentrations, making production costs much lower. The U.S. government used the Texas wells to set up a strategic reserve in the early to mid 20th century (when zeppelins were still a thing, and later for the space race).
Towards the end of the 20th century, it gradually sold this inventory into the market, effectively subsidizing it with tax paid by americans during the cold war. This created a disincentive for developing the capability of producing helium from lower grade sources. The uncertainty in the market raised prices, based on the perception of an impending shortage.
Without the Tanzania find, the increased price would have eventually convinced someone to invest in the infrastructure for separating helium from lower grade sources, eliminating the dependency on the chances of finding high grade sources.
Of course, if someone *had* done so, he would have been greatly disappointed by the Tanzania find reducing the price hurt the return on their investment. That's the risk of investing.
There was a question on some forum (perhaps AskReddit) for formerly poor people about what surprised them the most after they became better off.
One poster claimed that he was surprised people with more money actually do drugs for recreation. Everyone where he grew up that used drugs did it to soothe the pain. Everyone knew it. Everyone also knew the price. And those that chose this way were not judged too much.
Virtually all countries employ some kind of differential taxation and/or benefits ostensibly meant to help those who have less.
Universal income is just a simpler way and more efficient to implement them. Get rid of all those complex systems. Also gets rid of any incentives for people to be intentionally miserable.
This is assuming, of course, those other systems are dismantled. Many people are employed by those systems or make a living optimizing and gaming those systems. They will will all end up having to look for new jobs. This is the hard part.
Startups are defined by rapid growth. It is probably too easy to get uncontrolled and inefficient growth, too. Remember this is not a software company that can support millions of end users per employee. They grow at startup rates with lots of real world locally managed locations.
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Is that the best you can come up with for global warming? Youâ(TM)ll have to try harder...
If any USA person or company is involved in any way (investor, employee, subcontractor etc) in a launch the government of the USA considers it as something it has jurisdiction over. IIRC, international space treaties actually require signatories it to regulate such activity by their citizens.
https://www.google.com/patents...
The rest of their patents are linked as references.
Translation: A really really big seagate customer that does video surveillance and analytics ("AI") was not satisfied with drive reliability and performance. Since it was a really really big customer they got seagate to build them a special model. Seagate also sells this model to other customers and their salesdrones got overly excited about the "AI" angle.
Slashdot ate my link.
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If there is, it would pass right there.
Many intelligent people do not feel they need to join any specific organization to mark that fact. Perhaps those who do are more likely to have emotional or mental issues?
Any such study that does not start with a large and unbiased cohort before they even got their IQ tested is close to worthless.
We have the ability to detect materials in such minute amounts that we can find traces of almost anything, anywhere. It is definitely an effective way to generate headlines. But is it meaningful in any real sense? There is some botulinum toxin in the air you breathe. The question is always how much.
We live in a world where virtually everyone has a camera and audio recording device on them at all times. It's no coincidence that people's willingness to believe in UFO reports, for example, has dropped sharply.
Even if some of this is outside the hearing range, any phone should be able to record at least *something*.
Not a single piece of recorded evidence? Count me as extremely skeptical.
https://www.google.com/patents...
The tag is an almost-passive device with tiny power consumption. It can be read by a device with a directional antenna mounted on a pair of binoculars, for example.
Backpack computers designed to provide a VR experience. They are battery powered and without screen or keyboard. But it is a high end PC for gaming. Probably not what you are looking for.
It should be pretty easy to fit the VR headset to provide some nitrous oxide to augment the experience. Actually, and this feature could be great for non-medical VR applications, too...
The signs are mostly a gimmick. The important part is to identify other vehicles to avoid dazzling them while keeping everything else well lit by main beams.
Hundreds of millions of people with reduced night vision that cannot (or should not) drive at night will be able to do it safely.
I was mostly referring to things like i/o architecture, channels, memory and i/o virtualization, nested virtualization, resource management and allocation.
In short, almost anything BUT the CPU.
I was born one the same date (... 4 digit slashdot id checks out...). I have been using microcomputers since I was 10. I have never worked at anything other than software and hardware development.
Our contemporary computing ecosystem has evolved from the microcomputers I was born with. They actually have some architectural details that can be traced to the 4004's successor, the 8008.
Our computers are not descendants of the mainframes that came before them. By now, they have acquired many of the advanced features of mainframes. Implemented badly, several decades later. It is fascinating to learn about the history of mainframes. It is also somewhat depressing.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
1. Inventor makes some new and non-obvious improvement to prior art. "I did A with B using C by way of D"
2. In patent application, the patent editor tries to widen the claim to. "A with B using C", "A using C by way of D" or even all the way to the silly and obvious "A".
3. Patent examiner rejects most claims. Some widened claims, beyond what the inventor considered to be his invention, are accepted by the examiner because they really are novel and non-obvious. The patent is now more valuable too inventor (or, more often, his employer) because it covers more things.
This process of trying to extend the claims by making them more general is quite mechanical. Patent editors do it almost automatically and without really trying to think too hard if the result makes much sense.
Sometimes overworked examiners accept silly over-generalized claims on an application and it makes it into a granted patent. It is a serious problem with the system (or a win, if you are the submitting company). Such claims may be overturned later in court, but most patent lawsuits are settled out of court, never challenging such claims because of the costs and risks involved. This makes such over generalized patents a weapon for bullies.
Sometimes, if you are a high-profile company that is under the public eye, people will pick such unexamined claims in a patent application and make them into a silly headline "company X tries to patent obvious thing Y!!!".
But the percentage of miles driven? This number is dominated by vehicles that run all day.
Yes, the vehicles we use for commute and errands can generally be replaced with electrics.
The vehicles for which someone is calculating an ROI run all day and have much bigger engines.
Long haul trucks. Distribution trucks. Farm machines and many others. There is no alternative for diesel fuel for these vehicles and nothing even remotely on the horizon.
If these vehicles stop running billions of people will starve within weeks.
Not just floss. Parachutes, too, suffer from a serious shortage of controlled trials demonstrating their efficacy.
Article here.
A good VR experience (and preventing motion sickness) requires fast response time. This requires low latency of the entire chain from the motion sensing device, through the USB connection, OS process scheduling, scene calculation and rendering and any buffering in the video card and display.
A system that is able to respond quickly can obviously produce more frames per second. But just creating more frames per second without reducing latency will not help the experience feel more convincing (or prevent you from feeling queezy). It will just look a bit smoother.
In playback of canned video latency does not matter much. In fact, generating these in-between images actually increases overall latency as the system has to delay the next image while calculating and displaying the in-between image. As long as an equivalent delay is inserted into the audio nobody notices this. But it won't work for VR.
There is, however, a method to produce faster response without calculating more images per second. The most critical movements are those of the head and the change in the scene from such motions can be approximated by simple panning. It's not perfect, but does work to reduce motion sickness.
This company makes a phone-shaped gun. This is not a novelty item. It's a real gun.
American obsession with firearms is inspiring. And creepy. And... other things.
Omnidirectional wheels are not new (1949 german parent).
What is probably new here is that the wheel surface is not a discontinuous set of smaller wheels - it's a toroidal tire that can rotate on the in-out axis. This requires the surface to stretch considerably and is probably not compatible with the requirements for car tires. This has real applications, but standard passenger cars are probably not one of them. This car demo is, however, a great way to attract attention and, hopefully, investment. A forklift just doesn't have the same dramatic effect.
There will never be a shortage of helium. Only a shortage of really cheap helium.
Helium is continuously produced by alpha decay of radioactive materials inside the earth. It exists in various concentrations in all natural gas reserves.
Some of those reserves (e.g. some wells in Texas or the one now found in Tanzania) have unusually high helium concentrations, making production costs much lower. The U.S. government used the Texas wells to set up a strategic reserve in the early to mid 20th century (when zeppelins were still a thing, and later for the space race).
Towards the end of the 20th century, it gradually sold this inventory into the market, effectively subsidizing it with tax paid by americans during the cold war. This created a disincentive for developing the capability of producing helium from lower grade sources. The uncertainty in the market raised prices, based on the perception of an impending shortage.
Without the Tanzania find, the increased price would have eventually convinced someone to invest in the infrastructure for separating helium from lower grade sources, eliminating the dependency on the chances of finding high grade sources.
Of course, if someone *had* done so, he would have been greatly disappointed by the Tanzania find reducing the price hurt the return on their investment. That's the risk of investing.
There was a question on some forum (perhaps AskReddit) for formerly poor people about what surprised them the most after they became better off.
One poster claimed that he was surprised people with more money actually do drugs for recreation. Everyone where he grew up that used drugs did it to soothe the pain. Everyone knew it. Everyone also knew the price. And those that chose this way were not judged too much.
Virtually all countries employ some kind of differential taxation and/or benefits ostensibly meant to help those who have less.
Universal income is just a simpler way and more efficient to implement them. Get rid of all those complex systems. Also gets rid of any incentives for people to be intentionally miserable.
This is assuming, of course, those other systems are dismantled. Many people are employed by those systems or make a living optimizing and gaming those systems. They will will all end up having to look for new jobs. This is the hard part.
Startups are defined by rapid growth. It is probably too easy to get uncontrolled and inefficient growth, too. Remember this is not a software company that can support millions of end users per employee. They grow at startup rates with lots of real world locally managed locations.
This is unfortunate but not really surprising.