Cool, but is this really any better than a video conference?
It is a video conference. The "capture studio" sounds expensive, but "low thousands" for the projector doesn't sound all that obscene. Whether it's worth it depends on how beneficial the illusion of the instructor's physical presence is in terms of classroom interaction &c. is relative to the price premium over a 2D projector.
What this really does is track those who take the cart off prem
Those devices already exist. They lock the cart wheels as soon as a shopping cart is removed from the property.
Rather than stymie the homeless, however, this Fitbit-mabopper sounds like Wal-Mart is giving the homeless free fitness trackers. Not even my insurance does that. How's that for community outreach?
Which would you rather have? (1) A high salary as long as you work all your waking hours or (2) Half the work and half the pay while you're young enough to create nice memories for the rest of your life. If you would sincerely prefer Option (1), then mostly I just feel sorry for you. I think the economists have bamboozled you.
Your business plan is #1, except you don't plan on paying people. That makes you either innumerate or a sociopath, depending on whether you realize that.
My theory of ekronomics is still at the level of ontology, but I don't have time just now for another round of Ekronomics 101.
Of course you don't; your time is simply too valuable to waste pontificating about some shit you made up for the express purpose of pontificating. The same doesn't apply to those economist types, who are supposed to spend their time pontificating about actually useful things so that your website works.
You're a bit of a dunce, and condescending to boot. Do your family a favor and try being at most one of those things at a time.
Money is a powerful motivator. Absent that, you're left trying to find a large group of businessmen savvy enough to help other people make money, but that don't want any themselves. Or, better yet, software developers that want to work on other people's projects rather than their own, at below-market rates, for the pleasure of seeing someone else make money from the delivery of their closed-source video game. I don't think you're going to find enough of either personality to build a business on their generosity.
In terms of a constructive solution, I wish there were a crowdfunding website that EARNED its cut by providing project management support. Please let me know if such exists
That sounds a lot like the better venture capitalists: You make your pitch, and, if it's sane, they'll buy an equity stake, giving you their money in exchange for a share of any profit. Advice and mentorship is part of the deal; they've done this all before, so they can save you from having to learn project management and supply chains the hard way. Most will sit on your board to help keep Elon Musk types productive; some will also supply expert personnel to help you successfully negotiate manufacture of your widget in Shenzhen or whatever. They're in the business of giving first-time businessmen the money and experience they need to 1) not burn out, 2) not lose their house, 3) not lose their savings, and 4) not lose years of their life before failing to deliver anything at all. It's the kind of thing a naive Kickstarter could benefit from.
So, it'd be neat if you could make your Kickstarter-that-earns-its-keep into a reality. Lots of people have failed to deliver the card games they kickstarted; most of those probably would have succeeded if they had access to a Matthew Inman who had done that before, could reality-check their budget, could warn them of any pitfalls inherent in contract printing, and could connect them with a reputable printer. Only problem is that Matthew Inman doesn't scale; you'd need to find a way to run the kind of feasibility studies small-scale kickstarters would need and deliver individually tailored advice (and adult supervision) to the virtually unlimited numbers of prospective kickstarters, most of which are resorting to kickstarter because their scale is too small to afford any of that professional management nonsense. Running a glorified payment processor, in the meanwhile, is cheap and scales great.
If you could find a way to make it work, though, you'd be doing capitalism a hell of a favor.
What is needed is multiple like OCO2/OCO3. Then monitor around the world. Seriously, a number of nations cheat. With the sats, it will be possible to find out which ones. Ideally, CA will tax consumed goods/.services based on which nation/state the worst sub-part/service comes from
There are many reasons to go into space: To gain new knowledge, to help our ships at sea steer a safer course, to explore and learn new techniques of mapping and observation, to discover new tools of science and medicine, to expand the furthest outposts on the new frontier, for the growth of science and education.
Some may go to space not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one they are willing to accept, one they are unwilling to postpone, and one which they intend to win.
But only California would go to space to raise taxes.
Should webmasters "resist Google's push for AMP pages"? Webmasters should really just write mobile websites that don't suck ass, but that's apparently just not something they'll do of their own volition. Most of my mobile browsing is just reading some headlines to kill time, and it's amazing how bad news websites in particular are--laggy scrolling, pop-overs, teleporting ads, teleporting paragraphs, etc. When AMP came out, that shit disappeared from anything I Googled practically overnight--any time I've clicked (tapped, I guess) through to an AMP page, it's loaded quickly, scrolling has worked, and nothing teleports.
Are there privacy implications? Of course, but they're rather marginal for someone already using Google's search engine, e-mail, news reader, chat programs, and browser. Is AMP necessary to write a good mobile website? Of course not, but writing a good mobile website is just not something a paste-eating webmaster will do unless someone grabs him by the ad dollars, forces him into a padded cell, and takes away so much markup he couldn't possibly fuck up what's left.
TL;DR AMP exists because webmasters are universally incompetent. If you chucklefucks weren't utter failures, AMP would never have happened.
Even if you found its goals laudable, SESTA is not a particularly good piece of legislation. Techdirt hates it because it's intentionally vague--what, exactly, constitutes "knowing conduct by an individual or entity, by any means, that assists, supports, or facilitates a violation"? We know what violates current law, that is, what constitutes "general knowledge" versus "specific knowledge" versus "red flag knowledge" under the DMCA--but knowing what the law actually is means you can comply with it, and that's exactly the flaw this new bill seeks to address.
Lest you think I'm overly cynical (I am), it's worth mentioning that the Department of Justicealso hates the bill, also because it's too vague. (Sensing a theme?) While Techdirt's worried that the "knowing conduct" non-definition of "participation in a venture" could be mean anything and everything, the DoJ's worried about the exact opposite--that courts, having been given absolutely no guidance by the bill, could just as easily decide that "knowing conduct" means something highly specific, "effectively creating additional elements that prosecutors must prove at trial." That the trafficking bill's intentional, catch-all vagueness could make it harder for the DoJ to jail traffickers, in other words.
The DoJ is additionally worried that the bill will send you to jail, retroactively, for past "ventures", even if those "ventures" were legal at the time, and again without caring to get too specific on what actually counts as a "venture." If you're reading along, they list that issue under the heading "CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERN", which you'll find capitalized, bolded, and underlined in the original.
In other words, it's a shit bill. If prosecutors were really interested in stopping child trafficking, they would prosecute the traffickers--if allegations are to be believed, you'll find a list of just those people, conveniently enough, on Backpage. Instead, they'd rather go after Backpage--make an example of them, even, since they didn't cave to think-of-the-children grandstanding like Craigslist did.
...which is why we now have a bill tailor made to throw Backpage employees in jail, retroactively, for whatever, because fuck you. I don't think many people here are dumb enough to find credible the sincerity and good intentions of a politician, on the eve of midterms, crying THINK OF THE CHILDREN, but it bears repeating that those sentiments are exactly why we're entertaining an ex post facto law to make King George proud, in 2018, when everything it purports to criminalize is already illegal.
The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other can. -- Wilhelm Reich
I wonder who thought that offensive.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. -- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
I thought that was XML. Guess Adolf was misquoted. Should probably tell our lead dev.
"Violence accomplishes nothing." What a contemptible lie! Raw, naked violence has settled more issues throughout history than any other method ever employed. Perhaps the city fathers of Carthage could debate the issue, with Hitler and Alexander as judges?
The obvious agenda here is to make repository hosting first more centralized, then more "hosted at MicroSoft", then, once people depend on the hosted service, demand monthly fees for it.
Also, to the average user it isn't clear who the third party they are trusting is and whether they are any more trustworthy.
Blindly trusting a third party, or even a small number of third parties, is still a huge improvement over blindly trusting a far greater (but unknown) number of third parties. Quit being lazy and fix your website.
I thought I read this pretentious garbage somewhere else before. It's bad enough when the stories are dupes, but, even worse,/. has declined so far that it's taken at least two stories for someone to inform you that LA is already built. Your suggestion to "build it better" is a hundred-odd years too late to be anything other than cock-stroking.
Unless your suggestion was actually to bulldoze everything and start over, now that you're around to plan things properly. It's not too late for that, but it really puts Musk's "arrogant" tunnel suggestion into perspective.
Let's assume you can still "opt out of the unmetered 1.5 Mbps shit to get full speed video." Go explain why it costs $25 extra for "unlimited HD" when you're already paying for a supposedly "unlimited" plan with "unlimited data."
I did that, so quit being an angsty fanboy. It's in their press release -- 480p video is unlimited, HD video is an extra $25 a month on top of your "unlimited" plan.
I have no idea why T-Mobile has so many fanboys hearing only what they want to hear, but their press release isn't exactly ambiguous:
With T-Mobile ONE, even video is unlimited at standard definition [...] For customers who want higher definition video, T-Mobile ONE has you covered too with an HD add-on for $25 a month per line.
Ars has the same take on T-Mobile charging $25 extra for "HD."
According to this anon, they do string matching on host, content-type, and SNI fields, which is how they throttled HTTPS YouTube. If you wrote a proxy that rewrote those fields, you could escape Binge-On. Or apparently make Binge-On detect random shit as an approved streaming partner and zero-rate it for you.
I want 1080p YouTube videos on my phone. My phone has a 1080p screen, and even at native resolution it's already a pain in the ass to make out any text, captions, or fine details (mouse cursors, HP bars, wires and gauges, whathaveyou). Downscaling the video to <1.5Mbps 480p and blowing it back up again doesn't help legibility any.
If you nerds want to relive the 90s, nothing's stopping you from transcoding everything you watch to 64Kbps RealMedia(tm) first. I certainly wouldn't pay anyone to run a Minecraft filter on all my video, though, and I doubly wouldn't pay them again to unfuck it.
how can T-Mobile stop people from getting full HD streams from that provider without paying the extra $25 charge
They use some form of DPI to detect video content, and throttle everything that matches--even non-streaming downloads of video files--to 1.5 Mbps. If your video provider of choice feels like sucking T-Mobile's cock, there's an API approved providers can implement to serve <1.5Mbps streams to the "Binge-On" customer instead.
If your video provider of choice has not written any T-Mobile-specific code, they better be able to dynamically degrade to a <1.5Mbps stream, or the video will buffer or not load at all. A VPN might be able to evade that, except a VPN would probably be detected as "hotspot" or "tethering" usage, which is throttled to 128Kbps on the new "unlimited" plans.
Anyone claiming the video throttling ("Binge-On") is optional or can be turned off hasn't read TFA or TFS. That used to be the case, and still is on the old plans, but it's mandatory on the new "unlimited" plans in order to prevent you from actually using any data.
Didn't even make it to the second sentence in the summary, did you? It's mandatory on the new "unlimited" plans, and "HD" (>480p) video will cost you an extra $25 a month.
1. With occulus rift being vaporware, which glasses are the best for viewing 3D porn?
The Facebook Rift is actually shipping now, but I'm partial to the Vive. You'll need to purchase Virtual Desktop to watch 3D videos on the latter.
2. What are the best sites for "be the girl" porn? (serious question)
Check out this, shot from a girl's PoV. You'd think looking down at your chest and having a girl's breasts would be weird--unless you are a grill, I s'pose (inb4 >slashdot), or unless your physique lends itself to man boobs.
But it was having a girl's arms that freaked me out.
I mean, I'm no Yao Ming, but I'm tall. I have large hands and long fingers, though I'm not used to thinking of them that way--they're just your hands, right? How much time do people in prohibitionist states spend really contemplating their hands? Outside of shopping for a pair of gloves that fit (they're all made by gnomes, for gnomes), or showing off with some Rachmaninoff, they're just hands, and you don't really think about their dimensions.
But that video dumps you into the perspective of a girl. A tiny girl. A tiny girl, with tiny arms, and tiny hands, and tiny, tiny wrists. And holy shit, is that weird.
I'm used to porn making me big, but that was the first time porn made me small! It was some real Alice in Wonderland shit.
I mean, are tiny people really that tiny? How do you tiny people do push-ups without your hands breaking right off? How do you reach the trigger on a rifle? Do your fingers not overhang computer mice by several inches, dragging along the tabletop every time you mouse?
Were people serious about the Xbox controller being large?
The whole experience has really changed my understanding of reality. It's not the kind of thing you can casually whip out at a VR party, though.
Slashdot Mirror
This is /. It's actually just lying.
Cool, but is this really any better than a video conference?
It is a video conference. The "capture studio" sounds expensive, but "low thousands" for the projector doesn't sound all that obscene. Whether it's worth it depends on how beneficial the illusion of the instructor's physical presence is in terms of classroom interaction &c. is relative to the price premium over a 2D projector.
Could people PLEASE stop calling these 2d projections 'holograms' and learn what an actual hologram is??
This. So much this. For reference, here's a list of things that are holograms:
Tthings that are not holograms:
What this really does is track those who take the cart off prem
Those devices already exist. They lock the cart wheels as soon as a shopping cart is removed from the property.
Rather than stymie the homeless, however, this Fitbit-mabopper sounds like Wal-Mart is giving the homeless free fitness trackers. Not even my insurance does that. How's that for community outreach?
Which would you rather have? (1) A high salary as long as you work all your waking hours or (2) Half the work and half the pay while you're young enough to create nice memories for the rest of your life. If you would sincerely prefer Option (1), then mostly I just feel sorry for you. I think the economists have bamboozled you.
Your business plan is #1, except you don't plan on paying people. That makes you either innumerate or a sociopath, depending on whether you realize that.
My theory of ekronomics is still at the level of ontology, but I don't have time just now for another round of Ekronomics 101.
Of course you don't; your time is simply too valuable to waste pontificating about some shit you made up for the express purpose of pontificating. The same doesn't apply to those economist types, who are supposed to spend their time pontificating about actually useful things so that your website works.
You're a bit of a dunce, and condescending to boot. Do your family a favor and try being at most one of those things at a time.
Money is a powerful motivator. Absent that, you're left trying to find a large group of businessmen savvy enough to help other people make money, but that don't want any themselves. Or, better yet, software developers that want to work on other people's projects rather than their own, at below-market rates, for the pleasure of seeing someone else make money from the delivery of their closed-source video game. I don't think you're going to find enough of either personality to build a business on their generosity.
In terms of a constructive solution, I wish there were a crowdfunding website that EARNED its cut by providing project management support. Please let me know if such exists
That sounds a lot like the better venture capitalists: You make your pitch, and, if it's sane, they'll buy an equity stake, giving you their money in exchange for a share of any profit. Advice and mentorship is part of the deal; they've done this all before, so they can save you from having to learn project management and supply chains the hard way. Most will sit on your board to help keep Elon Musk types productive; some will also supply expert personnel to help you successfully negotiate manufacture of your widget in Shenzhen or whatever. They're in the business of giving first-time businessmen the money and experience they need to 1) not burn out, 2) not lose their house, 3) not lose their savings, and 4) not lose years of their life before failing to deliver anything at all. It's the kind of thing a naive Kickstarter could benefit from.
So, it'd be neat if you could make your Kickstarter-that-earns-its-keep into a reality. Lots of people have failed to deliver the card games they kickstarted; most of those probably would have succeeded if they had access to a Matthew Inman who had done that before, could reality-check their budget, could warn them of any pitfalls inherent in contract printing, and could connect them with a reputable printer. Only problem is that Matthew Inman doesn't scale; you'd need to find a way to run the kind of feasibility studies small-scale kickstarters would need and deliver individually tailored advice (and adult supervision) to the virtually unlimited numbers of prospective kickstarters, most of which are resorting to kickstarter because their scale is too small to afford any of that professional management nonsense. Running a glorified payment processor, in the meanwhile, is cheap and scales great.
If you could find a way to make it work, though, you'd be doing capitalism a hell of a favor.
What is needed is multiple like OCO2/OCO3. Then monitor around the world. Seriously, a number of nations cheat. With the sats, it will be possible to find out which ones. Ideally, CA will tax consumed goods/.services based on which nation/state the worst sub-part/service comes from
There are many reasons to go into space: To gain new knowledge, to help our ships at sea steer a safer course, to explore and learn new techniques of mapping and observation, to discover new tools of science and medicine, to expand the furthest outposts on the new frontier, for the growth of science and education.
Some may go to space not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one they are willing to accept, one they are unwilling to postpone, and one which they intend to win.
But only California would go to space to raise taxes.
Should webmasters "resist Google's push for AMP pages"? Webmasters should really just write mobile websites that don't suck ass, but that's apparently just not something they'll do of their own volition. Most of my mobile browsing is just reading some headlines to kill time, and it's amazing how bad news websites in particular are--laggy scrolling, pop-overs, teleporting ads, teleporting paragraphs, etc. When AMP came out, that shit disappeared from anything I Googled practically overnight--any time I've clicked (tapped, I guess) through to an AMP page, it's loaded quickly, scrolling has worked, and nothing teleports.
Are there privacy implications? Of course, but they're rather marginal for someone already using Google's search engine, e-mail, news reader, chat programs, and browser. Is AMP necessary to write a good mobile website? Of course not, but writing a good mobile website is just not something a paste-eating webmaster will do unless someone grabs him by the ad dollars, forces him into a padded cell, and takes away so much markup he couldn't possibly fuck up what's left.
TL;DR AMP exists because webmasters are universally incompetent. If you chucklefucks weren't utter failures, AMP would never have happened.
Text wrapping is a "solved" problem, too, but you're still doing it by hand for some reason.
>i did best buys geek squad then i graduated You got ripped off.
Even if you found its goals laudable, SESTA is not a particularly good piece of legislation. Techdirt hates it because it's intentionally vague--what, exactly, constitutes "knowing conduct by an individual or entity, by any means, that assists, supports, or facilitates a violation"? We know what violates current law, that is, what constitutes "general knowledge" versus "specific knowledge" versus "red flag knowledge" under the DMCA--but knowing what the law actually is means you can comply with it, and that's exactly the flaw this new bill seeks to address.
Lest you think I'm overly cynical (I am), it's worth mentioning that the Department of Justice also hates the bill, also because it's too vague. (Sensing a theme?) While Techdirt's worried that the "knowing conduct" non-definition of "participation in a venture" could be mean anything and everything, the DoJ's worried about the exact opposite--that courts, having been given absolutely no guidance by the bill, could just as easily decide that "knowing conduct" means something highly specific, "effectively creating additional elements that prosecutors must prove at trial." That the trafficking bill's intentional, catch-all vagueness could make it harder for the DoJ to jail traffickers, in other words.
The DoJ is additionally worried that the bill will send you to jail, retroactively, for past "ventures", even if those "ventures" were legal at the time, and again without caring to get too specific on what actually counts as a "venture." If you're reading along, they list that issue under the heading "CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERN", which you'll find capitalized, bolded, and underlined in the original.
In other words, it's a shit bill. If prosecutors were really interested in stopping child trafficking, they would prosecute the traffickers--if allegations are to be believed, you'll find a list of just those people, conveniently enough, on Backpage. Instead, they'd rather go after Backpage--make an example of them, even, since they didn't cave to think-of-the-children grandstanding like Craigslist did.
...which is why we now have a bill tailor made to throw Backpage employees in jail, retroactively, for whatever, because fuck you. I don't think many people here are dumb enough to find credible the sincerity and good intentions of a politician, on the eve of midterms, crying THINK OF THE CHILDREN, but it bears repeating that those sentiments are exactly why we're entertaining an ex post facto law to make King George proud, in 2018, when everything it purports to criminalize is already illegal.
I wonder who thought that offensive.
I thought that was XML. Guess Adolf was misquoted. Should probably tell our lead dev.
Carthago delenda est!
Nobody tell him GitHub already exists and charges money. Microsoft's interested in GVFS is because 1) Git sucks at handling large repos, and 2) Microsoft has a 270GB repo. /. article back in Friday had better comments, including one linking an article describing why they chose Git for source control, and what GVFS actually does.
The original
Blindly trusting a third party, or even a small number of third parties, is still a huge improvement over blindly trusting a far greater (but unknown) number of third parties. Quit being lazy and fix your website.
I thought I read this pretentious garbage somewhere else before. It's bad enough when the stories are dupes, but, even worse, /. has declined so far that it's taken at least two stories for someone to inform you that LA is already built. Your suggestion to "build it better" is a hundred-odd years too late to be anything other than cock-stroking.
Unless your suggestion was actually to bulldoze everything and start over, now that you're around to plan things properly. It's not too late for that, but it really puts Musk's "arrogant" tunnel suggestion into perspective.
Let's assume you can still "opt out of the unmetered 1.5 Mbps shit to get full speed video." Go explain why it costs $25 extra for "unlimited HD" when you're already paying for a supposedly "unlimited" plan with "unlimited data."
I did that, so quit being an angsty fanboy. It's in their press release -- 480p video is unlimited, HD video is an extra $25 a month on top of your "unlimited" plan.
That makes sense.
I have no idea why T-Mobile has so many fanboys hearing only what they want to hear, but their press release isn't exactly ambiguous:
With T-Mobile ONE, even video is unlimited at standard definition [...] For customers who want higher definition video, T-Mobile ONE has you covered too with an HD add-on for $25 a month per line.
Ars has the same take on T-Mobile charging $25 extra for "HD."
According to this anon, they do string matching on host, content-type, and SNI fields, which is how they throttled HTTPS YouTube. If you wrote a proxy that rewrote those fields, you could escape Binge-On. Or apparently make Binge-On detect random shit as an approved streaming partner and zero-rate it for you.
I want 1080p YouTube videos on my phone. My phone has a 1080p screen, and even at native resolution it's already a pain in the ass to make out any text, captions, or fine details (mouse cursors, HP bars, wires and gauges, whathaveyou). Downscaling the video to <1.5Mbps 480p and blowing it back up again doesn't help legibility any.
If you nerds want to relive the 90s, nothing's stopping you from transcoding everything you watch to 64Kbps RealMedia(tm) first. I certainly wouldn't pay anyone to run a Minecraft filter on all my video, though, and I doubly wouldn't pay them again to unfuck it.
how can T-Mobile stop people from getting full HD streams from that provider without paying the extra $25 charge
They use some form of DPI to detect video content, and throttle everything that matches--even non-streaming downloads of video files--to 1.5 Mbps. If your video provider of choice feels like sucking T-Mobile's cock, there's an API approved providers can implement to serve <1.5Mbps streams to the "Binge-On" customer instead.
If your video provider of choice has not written any T-Mobile-specific code, they better be able to dynamically degrade to a <1.5Mbps stream, or the video will buffer or not load at all. A VPN might be able to evade that, except a VPN would probably be detected as "hotspot" or "tethering" usage, which is throttled to 128Kbps on the new "unlimited" plans.
Anyone claiming the video throttling ("Binge-On") is optional or can be turned off hasn't read TFA or TFS. That used to be the case, and still is on the old plans, but it's mandatory on the new "unlimited" plans in order to prevent you from actually using any data.
[Binge-on] is optional
Didn't even make it to the second sentence in the summary, did you? It's mandatory on the new "unlimited" plans, and "HD" (>480p) video will cost you an extra $25 a month.
1. With occulus rift being vaporware, which glasses are the best for viewing 3D porn?
The Facebook Rift is actually shipping now, but I'm partial to the Vive. You'll need to purchase Virtual Desktop to watch 3D videos on the latter.
2. What are the best sites for "be the girl" porn? (serious question)
Check out this, shot from a girl's PoV. You'd think looking down at your chest and having a girl's breasts would be weird--unless you are a grill, I s'pose (inb4 >slashdot), or unless your physique lends itself to man boobs.
But it was having a girl's arms that freaked me out.
I mean, I'm no Yao Ming, but I'm tall. I have large hands and long fingers, though I'm not used to thinking of them that way--they're just your hands, right? How much time do people in prohibitionist states spend really contemplating their hands? Outside of shopping for a pair of gloves that fit (they're all made by gnomes, for gnomes), or showing off with some Rachmaninoff, they're just hands, and you don't really think about their dimensions.
But that video dumps you into the perspective of a girl. A tiny girl. A tiny girl, with tiny arms, and tiny hands, and tiny, tiny wrists. And holy shit, is that weird.
I'm used to porn making me big, but that was the first time porn made me small! It was some real Alice in Wonderland shit.
I mean, are tiny people really that tiny? How do you tiny people do push-ups without your hands breaking right off? How do you reach the trigger on a rifle? Do your fingers not overhang computer mice by several inches, dragging along the tabletop every time you mouse?
Were people serious about the Xbox controller being large?
The whole experience has really changed my understanding of reality. It's not the kind of thing you can casually whip out at a VR party, though.