I do some safety consulting for disasters etc. This would be very helpful for disasters. You could even have an app that just tunes into the local emergency FM frequency. It's way easier to broadcast emergency instructions over FM to three million people in a metro area, than to support three million active streams over a data network, especially in an emergency.
The most interesting thing to me about the whole Snowden thing, is that nobody really cares. The stuff that he leaked are things that most people thought were happening already. In general, the leaks got a kind of "meh" response from the world. What that says about the world is something to talk about, but I find it interesting that there's not really anything that interesting to the public. It's not like they found proof of alien autopsies or something. Just your normal "we're a spy agency run by the United States" type of stuff.
It's already pretty much impossible for US companies to contract to French companies or employ French workers. This means there will be even less US companies working with French ones.
This is a classic example of when a software system is trying to make decisions, instead of helping them perform tasks, and it's a critical difference. I'm a big Apple fan, especially for mobile devices, but the fact that I still can't access the file system without hokey workarounds makes me really angry, for example.
Mobile games that are good (timing correct, scoring "hard enough" but not impossible, game immersive and creative, no annoying advertising, etc) cost money. It seems that if you're willing to part with $5 to $10, you get great games on mobile. If you're playing the free games, you're not the customer, you're the product for an advertising company. I think mobile games are great, especially for the price paid. Remember, Super Mario Bros. 3 was like 50 bucks. And that was thirty years ago. With inflation, that's over $100 today.
I have to say, I'm happy that Apple seems to be indicating with the iPhone SE that they are going to continue manufacturing small but smart devices. I think we're coming to the end of the "size wars" in smartphones. At some point it just doesn't make sense.
Pumped water is already here, with 127GWh already installed, which is the vast majority of large scale grid storage in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Going to the bathroom in the bushes won't result in the earth becoming uninhabitable to humans. I think their priorities are in the right place, thinking long term.
We've been promised the paperless revolution for like 20 years now. But paper has been around for thousands of years and isn't going anywhere soon. For example, there is a huge amount of ceremony around the president signing legislation on paper. Even the pens he uses become mementos. Judging from my office, paper isn't going anywhere very soon.
Really depends on the zoo, to be completely honest. AZA accredited zoos like San Diego and Hogle Zoo are pretty good, and they provide entertainment options for the animals like enrichment activities, etc. They also help kids to understand what we are destroying, which is absolutely critical. People don't care about animals if they've never seen one. But many zoos are not accredited, and many of those zoos are absolutely horrific.
A blood pressure monitor is a class II medical device, according to the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevi...
Seems like the app creators could be in some pretty hot water if their device doesn't work and they didn't get certification from the FDA to distribute it...
I agree. And this, incidentally, is why we don't allow legal proceedings to pierce the corporate veil very often. We want engineers and technical people in general to feel safe to do their jobs and innovate for the betterment of society. It's extremely rare to actually press criminal charges against them, unless there are obvious, egregious, purposeful ethics violations. This isn't a third world country, where you design a plant with a flaw you didn't anticipate, and they drag you out of your home in the middle of the night.
Then some scientist will come along and explain it in a few minutes and the "inventor" will immediately claim that the scientist is working for Big Government or Big Oil or Big Solar or Big Pharma, or that the scientist is in league with aliens, or that the scientist is an alien in human form trying to prevent them from discovering the secret that makes UFOs fly. They will keep the same debunked machine going around and around in the conspiracy market for thirty or forty years, speak at conferences, and take any skepticism as proof that their alien hypothesis is right.
Sorry, I meant "a thriving economy of personal helicopter commuters". I wasn't speaking to the economy in general. It seems like there are a lot of commuters in Brazil's larger cities that use helicopters, compared to other large cities in other countries.
Maybe not in the states, but in Brazil, for example, there is already a thriving economy. Sao Paulo has nearly 500 helicopters operating. Here is an article but there is also a great documentary on Netflix, I believe.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
In keeping with Uber's business model, the pilots won't be licensed, of course. And the helicopters won't be inspected or insured. That's ok because you're not really buying a helicopter ride, you're just asking to ride along with somebody that happens to have a helicopter they found somewhere and a smartphone.
People aren't willing to pay for it, because they don't really want it. It was subsidized as a sort of "tax" on people paying for access to news, i.e. the newspaper used some of it's revenues for in-depth articles that only a tiny portion of its reader base actually read. Now that news is pretty much free across the board, nobody wants to pay to read twenty pages of someone else's opinion, especially with the plethora of other entertainment out there. They'd rather watch a cable news anchor argue about it for twenty minutes with a guest instead.
You need to look at the rate of false positives vs. false negatives. If they took the fail-alert approach, for every true security breach, Comcast would be responding to thousands of "my microwave interrupts my WiFi when it runs" etc. This would further impact response times to true security breaches due to cry wolf issues. So is it secure? Yeah not really. Is this the correct business choice for Comcast? Probably.
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I do some safety consulting for disasters etc. This would be very helpful for disasters. You could even have an app that just tunes into the local emergency FM frequency. It's way easier to broadcast emergency instructions over FM to three million people in a metro area, than to support three million active streams over a data network, especially in an emergency.
The most interesting thing to me about the whole Snowden thing, is that nobody really cares. The stuff that he leaked are things that most people thought were happening already. In general, the leaks got a kind of "meh" response from the world. What that says about the world is something to talk about, but I find it interesting that there's not really anything that interesting to the public. It's not like they found proof of alien autopsies or something. Just your normal "we're a spy agency run by the United States" type of stuff.
It's already pretty much impossible for US companies to contract to French companies or employ French workers. This means there will be even less US companies working with French ones.
This is a classic example of when a software system is trying to make decisions, instead of helping them perform tasks, and it's a critical difference. I'm a big Apple fan, especially for mobile devices, but the fact that I still can't access the file system without hokey workarounds makes me really angry, for example.
Mobile games that are good (timing correct, scoring "hard enough" but not impossible, game immersive and creative, no annoying advertising, etc) cost money. It seems that if you're willing to part with $5 to $10, you get great games on mobile. If you're playing the free games, you're not the customer, you're the product for an advertising company. I think mobile games are great, especially for the price paid. Remember, Super Mario Bros. 3 was like 50 bucks. And that was thirty years ago. With inflation, that's over $100 today.
I have to say, I'm happy that Apple seems to be indicating with the iPhone SE that they are going to continue manufacturing small but smart devices. I think we're coming to the end of the "size wars" in smartphones. At some point it just doesn't make sense.
Pumped water is already here, with 127GWh already installed, which is the vast majority of large scale grid storage in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Going to the bathroom in the bushes won't result in the earth becoming uninhabitable to humans. I think their priorities are in the right place, thinking long term.
Why is this such a breakthrough? Google self driving cars have been using LIDAR for years: http://www.extremetech.com/ext...
A Moto 360.
We've been promised the paperless revolution for like 20 years now. But paper has been around for thousands of years and isn't going anywhere soon. For example, there is a huge amount of ceremony around the president signing legislation on paper. Even the pens he uses become mementos. Judging from my office, paper isn't going anywhere very soon.
Really depends on the zoo, to be completely honest. AZA accredited zoos like San Diego and Hogle Zoo are pretty good, and they provide entertainment options for the animals like enrichment activities, etc. They also help kids to understand what we are destroying, which is absolutely critical. People don't care about animals if they've never seen one. But many zoos are not accredited, and many of those zoos are absolutely horrific.
A blood pressure monitor is a class II medical device, according to the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevi... Seems like the app creators could be in some pretty hot water if their device doesn't work and they didn't get certification from the FDA to distribute it...
With this being John McAfee, that's probably already part of the plan.
I agree. And this, incidentally, is why we don't allow legal proceedings to pierce the corporate veil very often. We want engineers and technical people in general to feel safe to do their jobs and innovate for the betterment of society. It's extremely rare to actually press criminal charges against them, unless there are obvious, egregious, purposeful ethics violations. This isn't a third world country, where you design a plant with a flaw you didn't anticipate, and they drag you out of your home in the middle of the night.
Wish I had mod points. Have an upvote sir!
Then some scientist will come along and explain it in a few minutes and the "inventor" will immediately claim that the scientist is working for Big Government or Big Oil or Big Solar or Big Pharma, or that the scientist is in league with aliens, or that the scientist is an alien in human form trying to prevent them from discovering the secret that makes UFOs fly. They will keep the same debunked machine going around and around in the conspiracy market for thirty or forty years, speak at conferences, and take any skepticism as proof that their alien hypothesis is right.
There, fixed that for you.
So, after you escalated what happened? I'm curious if Amazon has resolved that issue for @gmail.com accounts.
Sorry, I meant "a thriving economy of personal helicopter commuters". I wasn't speaking to the economy in general. It seems like there are a lot of commuters in Brazil's larger cities that use helicopters, compared to other large cities in other countries.
Maybe not in the states, but in Brazil, for example, there is already a thriving economy. Sao Paulo has nearly 500 helicopters operating. Here is an article but there is also a great documentary on Netflix, I believe. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
In keeping with Uber's business model, the pilots won't be licensed, of course. And the helicopters won't be inspected or insured. That's ok because you're not really buying a helicopter ride, you're just asking to ride along with somebody that happens to have a helicopter they found somewhere and a smartphone.
People aren't willing to pay for it, because they don't really want it. It was subsidized as a sort of "tax" on people paying for access to news, i.e. the newspaper used some of it's revenues for in-depth articles that only a tiny portion of its reader base actually read. Now that news is pretty much free across the board, nobody wants to pay to read twenty pages of someone else's opinion, especially with the plethora of other entertainment out there. They'd rather watch a cable news anchor argue about it for twenty minutes with a guest instead.
This company makes keyboards that can be autoclaved: http://www.ikey.com/ Pretty impressive, frankly.
You need to look at the rate of false positives vs. false negatives. If they took the fail-alert approach, for every true security breach, Comcast would be responding to thousands of "my microwave interrupts my WiFi when it runs" etc. This would further impact response times to true security breaches due to cry wolf issues. So is it secure? Yeah not really. Is this the correct business choice for Comcast? Probably.
Probably bought their masks on Amazon. That makes me chuckle to myself.