I'm from Detroit and work in the auto industry, so I'll state my conflict of interest first. You might be mad about the auto bailouts, but you need to understand that the bank crisis created the auto crisis. The auto makers need lots of credit, and when that dried up, it was hard for all of us in the auto industry (not just the big three). We've built our society around easy credit for better or worse. So, I think it's more than a little unfair to act like the auto companies were up shit's creek purely because of bad business decisions. They based their cash flow around easy credit, and when that dried up for a while, it was a big deal. Think of the kind of cash burn a 200,000+ person company has. Sure, the automakers could have been healthier, but the auto crisis wasn't 100% their fault either.
Toyota and Honda didn't have any problems during that crisis, and they (Toyota) even have mandatory 2 hours unpaid overtime each day (you're paid 6 hours) in case something like this happens so they can scale everything back.
They also don't make dumbass cars that look ugly and break after 175k miles
When you consider that there are now over 1600 billionaires, how many of them are "using their powers for good" to the degree that Musk does? Sure there's the Gates Foundation, and other philanthropic efforts, there's the Tata Motors guy in India... some VC guys like Khosla... But out of 1600 people, what a tiny percentage of them even show up on the radar screen, let alone those who are doing "cool stuff" with their immense wealth and power.
If every billionaire used his wealth like Musk does, I wouldn't mind this staggering inequality so much. Sadly, Musk is more an exception than the rule.
free university? really? because then we'll get pressure to pass students to increase enrollment rates of every private institution in existence to increase funding. Like public school.
then the market will have to come up with some other way to filter out the idiots, just like with the HS Diploma, because it became worthless.
having used it 3 times, it most definitely strips a layer of skin off. works for me! No way I'm scrubbing my face to exfoliate. man it would be hard being a girl
I dont' know who those parties are. They actually present facts as they come in as opposed to having a bunch of 'experts' talk about nothing in particular.
Oculus says any less than 90fps will cause motion sickness....
Does the Sony running at 60fps have this problem?
side note: Alex Vlachos is the head of something-or-the-other-VR-development at Valve and gave a fascinating presentation at GDC2015 which GDC Vault has kindly opened up viewing of for free. This is where parent's 90fps comment came from.
What I found particularly interesting was their use of interpolation combined with efficient stacking of GPU API calls in advance of the next V-Sync to ensure the GPU hits the frame sync immediately. Their pipelined architecture predicts 2 frames in advance, updates the predictions for the frames with the latest head-trajectory calculations right before dispatch, and can blah blah go watch the video. He's an entertaining personality, talks fast to keep you engaged, and covers the content quite efficiently. In fact, I'm going to go re-watch it right.
A medical centrifuge accelerates this process dramatically....
really? how long will it take you to filter sewage with a medical centrifuge?
And if not, then we need to look at other means of processing the water. Possibly some sort of industrial centrifuge would be a good idea?
Why why why does every single municipal sewage treatment plant on the entire planet need a massive upgrade because there are people out there who cannot stand the concept of having dead skin cells on their faces?
you shouldn't even need microbeads for facial skin exfoliation, acid masks are $15 for a bottle that lasts for like, a year. the acid dissolves the glue holding the dead layer of skin on, and then it slowly falls off. No exfoliation needed, just 5-10 minutes of applying the mask then rinse off.*
*I am a man. I looked into this as a means of regrowing/replacing skin that was damaged from acne when I was much much younger, so young in fact that I came up with my silly username
This isn't the first time that I've seen mention of this. If I'm remembering previous articles correctly, these beads are ending up being consumed by very small sea creatures, who cannot process them, who then are eaten by bigger sea creatures, who also cannot process them, etc, until they build up in large concentrations toward the top of the foodchain to poison those alpha predators. There's concern for humans that eat those largest animals too.
Honestly I'm surprised that they were legal in the first place, but if there wasn't an explicit law against them then I guess the companies that have manufactured and used them were free to do so regardless of any perceived morality on the matter.
I'm kinda disappointed, the Crest 3D toothpaste in the blue tube was the first one that actually manages to maintain teeth whiteness for me
use LinkBubble or Flynx to load the mobile youtube page and play from there. you can open playlists too, and disable a setting in the LinkBubble app, which permits continuous background javascript/page loading/activity, so it just goes to the next on the playlist
ok, so instead of a safely-powered gasoline drone, which is flammable, we'd have an explosive drone that crazies are tempted to shoot at out their window using pellet guns. poof! there goes someone's amazon delivery!
You showed an unfiltered live capture of your network to clients? Not one person there was security conscious, let alone competent? It is that sort of behavior that gets many organizations in trouble eventually.
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It's not just the money. Don't forget about all lives that are lost in wars. And people suffering from air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels.
lets not forget the domestic hunger problems we've solved by having cheap transportation.
funding isn't what we need, Washington DC spends $31k/student, and has some of the dumbest kids in existence.
There's a (rather disturbing IMHO) school of thought that thinks government is the ultimate economic engine..
there is?
ok, so we're in agreement. Hold the auto industry accountable, and hold the banking industry accountable
"can't even compete in their niche without goverment subsidies" - then you must be PISSED about the government bailing out established auto companies.
http://useconomy.about.com/od/...
I'm from Detroit and work in the auto industry, so I'll state my conflict of interest first. You might be mad about the auto bailouts, but you need to understand that the bank crisis created the auto crisis. The auto makers need lots of credit, and when that dried up, it was hard for all of us in the auto industry (not just the big three). We've built our society around easy credit for better or worse. So, I think it's more than a little unfair to act like the auto companies were up shit's creek purely because of bad business decisions. They based their cash flow around easy credit, and when that dried up for a while, it was a big deal. Think of the kind of cash burn a 200,000+ person company has. Sure, the automakers could have been healthier, but the auto crisis wasn't 100% their fault either.
Toyota and Honda didn't have any problems during that crisis, and they (Toyota) even have mandatory 2 hours unpaid overtime each day (you're paid 6 hours) in case something like this happens so they can scale everything back.
They also don't make dumbass cars that look ugly and break after 175k miles
This.
When you consider that there are now over 1600 billionaires, how many of them are "using their powers for good" to the degree that Musk does? Sure there's the Gates Foundation, and other philanthropic efforts, there's the Tata Motors guy in India... some VC guys like Khosla... But out of 1600 people, what a tiny percentage of them even show up on the radar screen, let alone those who are doing "cool stuff" with their immense wealth and power.
If every billionaire used his wealth like Musk does, I wouldn't mind this staggering inequality so much. Sadly, Musk is more an exception than the rule.
and we must rule the exception.
atlas shrugged
you honestly think SpaceX costs more than Lockheed Martin and Boeing to run?
I don't read even the summary, you think I would read the entire comments?
free university? really? because then we'll get pressure to pass students to increase enrollment rates of every private institution in existence to increase funding. Like public school.
then the market will have to come up with some other way to filter out the idiots, just like with the HS Diploma, because it became worthless.
NSA stands for No Strings Attached
how do we fix it?
yes. yes it does!
having used it 3 times, it most definitely strips a layer of skin off. works for me! No way I'm scrubbing my face to exfoliate. man it would be hard being a girl
no, I was covering my tracks 'bro why do you facial mask??? lol are you a girl???'
I dont' know who those parties are. They actually present facts as they come in as opposed to having a bunch of 'experts' talk about nothing in particular.
talking about BBC-covered US-news
hm, good question. I only had problem on crt 72hz, but I've heard of that regarding LED LCDs strobing at low brightness levels ('flicker')
BBC. I'm ok with BBC
Oculus says any less than 90fps will cause motion sickness....
Does the Sony running at 60fps have this problem?
side note: Alex Vlachos is the head of something-or-the-other-VR-development at Valve and gave a fascinating presentation at GDC2015 which GDC Vault has kindly opened up viewing of for free. This is where parent's 90fps comment came from.
What I found particularly interesting was their use of interpolation combined with efficient stacking of GPU API calls in advance of the next V-Sync to ensure the GPU hits the frame sync immediately. Their pipelined architecture predicts 2 frames in advance, updates the predictions for the frames with the latest head-trajectory calculations right before dispatch, and can blah blah go watch the video. He's an entertaining personality, talks fast to keep you engaged, and covers the content quite efficiently. In fact, I'm going to go re-watch it right.
ugh its too hard to type what I was going to say
A medical centrifuge accelerates this process dramatically....
really? how long will it take you to filter sewage with a medical centrifuge?
And if not, then we need to look at other means of processing the water. Possibly some sort of industrial centrifuge would be a good idea?
Why why why does every single municipal sewage treatment plant on the entire planet need a massive upgrade because there are people out there who cannot stand the concept of having dead skin cells on their faces?
you shouldn't even need microbeads for facial skin exfoliation, acid masks are $15 for a bottle that lasts for like, a year. the acid dissolves the glue holding the dead layer of skin on, and then it slowly falls off. No exfoliation needed, just 5-10 minutes of applying the mask then rinse off.*
*I am a man. I looked into this as a means of regrowing/replacing skin that was damaged from acne when I was much much younger, so young in fact that I came up with my silly username
This isn't the first time that I've seen mention of this. If I'm remembering previous articles correctly, these beads are ending up being consumed by very small sea creatures, who cannot process them, who then are eaten by bigger sea creatures, who also cannot process them, etc, until they build up in large concentrations toward the top of the foodchain to poison those alpha predators. There's concern for humans that eat those largest animals too.
Honestly I'm surprised that they were legal in the first place, but if there wasn't an explicit law against them then I guess the companies that have manufactured and used them were free to do so regardless of any perceived morality on the matter.
I'm kinda disappointed, the Crest 3D toothpaste in the blue tube was the first one that actually manages to maintain teeth whiteness for me
never heard of that one. the three I've heard of are not open source. afaik
use LinkBubble or Flynx to load the mobile youtube page and play from there. you can open playlists too, and disable a setting in the LinkBubble app, which permits continuous background javascript/page loading/activity, so it just goes to the next on the playlist
ok, so instead of a safely-powered gasoline drone, which is flammable, we'd have an explosive drone that crazies are tempted to shoot at out their window using pellet guns. poof! there goes someone's amazon delivery!
*whoosh*
You showed an unfiltered live capture of your network to clients? Not one person there was security conscious, let alone competent? It is that sort of behavior that gets many organizations in trouble eventually.
wow, that is a good point.