That's the problem, there's no difference between everyday transactions and big deal transactions. We see this all the time in software exploits, where something like a low level serial port driver has an unmatched bug that can be used by clever hackers to take over a system. Those "would you like to save 10%" store credit cards are checked using the same systems that mortgages and cars loans use.
Until tokenized systems are more widespread, and people figure out that having a wallet full of plastic shouldn't be the goal, we're going to be dealing with this.
Yea, not really. 1200 baud packet is pretty bad for transmitting even basic information on a sustained basis. APRS use is sparse in most of the US, yet listening to 144.39 in any city shows that the channel is almost always saturated, even when there are a lot of high digipeaters and everyone is using the newer wideN-n path.
In a traditional packet network where you connect to stations using 1 or more digis (connect N0XXX via K1YYY), the channel is quickly saturated with digipeating, which gets far worse when you have hidden node problems and other collisions.
Mesh networks using modified 802.11x equipment will work better only because there's an automatic routing that takes place, but it will still suffer if there's a high node that becomes a bottleneck, and hidden nodes. At least it will be a little faster and have a decent T/R turn-around time though.
The time to build these networks is before there's a disaster, then harden the nodes. Or at least identify locations and test ahead of time but keep the equipment out of harm's way until needed. And we hams who want high speed networks on VHF and UHF need to start using what we've got (56 Ksps with QAM and other modulation, OFDM carriers, etc) and then petition the FCC for more bandwidth after we've maxed out what we have.
At what point will ISPs open up multicasting to the home? I'm sure the organizers used MC to get to distribution servers but everything from there to the end users is still unicast. I was working during the fight and our multicast to the edge modulator in the headend did just fine. I'm sure they'll point out that events like the Super Bowl will tax their edge routers but what about an event like this? I'm sure it was popular, but still a small fraction of users.
It's a side effect of all the studios being publicly held companies. They become completely risk adverse to anything that doesn't look like what worked the last time. Restaurants, retail shops, banks, airlines are all selling the same product in the same way because "the shareholders" (mostly institutional investors, the only ones who get an audience with the CEO) don't know anything about the business, other than what company X's earnings statement looked like last quarter, and so if you want the fund manager to buy your stock you'd better do what he wants. And once they own enough stock to move the chart negatively they get to define the product too. Usually the product is "do what that other, more successful company does, but for a buck cheaper. Or we'll run you out of the executive suite faster than you can say Transformers IX."
Mission accomplished! Modern "journalism" is all about getting you to click and share, not about actually giving you any news. I saw this story all over my Twitter feed. Tabooa and the "Wait 'til you see what the Baywatch stars look like today!" are the new normal.
Or was it always this way? How many times have you read a story about a subject you know a lot about and see what all they got wrong? Just now there was yet another story about lack of rural broadband in middle-of-nowhere Colorado that Slashdot picked up. No where did they mention that all the last mile equipment out there depends on home density above a certain level for it to make payback, because the investors don't want to wait 10 years for the profits to start (and the equipment will be obsolete in 3). Or that large corporations can't incorporate one-off solutions into their workflow, so these small areas will never be served by the big guys no matter what. No, much easier and more click-baitey to call ISPs evil.
"Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life."
The linked page includes a chart showing the relationship between depth of discharge and number of charge cycles. If I were to guess I imagine electric car drivers are charging daily/nightly when the car is parked at home and just leaving it on the charger when it is in the garage, even though they might have over 50% capacity remaining. Similar to smartphone users who are in the habit of plugging the phone in to charge when they are in the car or sleeping.
Actually, the rich probably won't use technology. They already have "automated" cars, planes and housework in the form of servants who do these tasks for them. I don't have access to this automation except for very short periods and shared (sometimes in a massive scale) in the form of taxis/buses/commercial air travel, or going to a restaurant or nice hotel. But having the level of "automation" of someone like Warren Buffet, who has thousands of people producing for him, functioning as extensions of his mind, is coming. Even now we have the ability to process information in a way unheard of for most of human history.
The vast majority of people have an IQ that is plenty high enough to run and even program most automated machinery. It is just that years of being told that programming is hard work only possible if you have a god-level IQ keeps most people with an average (100) IQ from trying. True, in a country of 330 million people there are probably a few million that are far enough below the average that they'll not be able to get it, but as a percentage of the population I'll bet that they're not enough to be overly worried about.
The idea that "we" have to do something about "them" is how we end up with concentration camps and trails of tears.
I used to work for a cable system in a competitive area. The two companies always tried to get an exclusive deal with the buildings, but through various court orders and lawsuits a compromise was reached: The drop coax going from the equipment demarcation box was owned by the building owner. A competitor had to "release" the line within 48 hours of getting an order from the other. The actual demarc was 1 foot outside of the box in the case of single family homes.
Where it got tricky was when there was a bad line, which was often in some of the older buildings that weren't wired for high speed internet and digital cable. Because the landlord owned the coax it became their responsibility to repair it. Of course they'd either tell the tech to "just repair it" expecting the company to eat the cost of the coax repair with the very real possibility of the renter switching service at any time. Or the landlord would get his maintenance guy to "certify" the cable as good because it worked for whatever test equipment (usually just a line toner) he had.
If a cable company comes in and rewires a building they almost always want exclusive use of the internal wiring because it's not cheap or easy to rewire buildings. Building owners aren't broadband cable engineers, they really don't care nor do they want to deal with it. So they sign the exclusive deals, renters are stuck with whatever service they get and that's that.
The real solution is to get 5G up and running. Then the inside wiring won't be a problem, unless you live in one of those reenforced concrete bunkers.
No, because the AMA's lobbyist did a great job getting that language put into the act. The AMA doesn't care about commercial users, just their membership.
The problem with the club field argument is that if you want to use a drone for photography it gets pretty boring to just take pictures of the club field. I enjoy flying my quadcopter, but if all I could do with it is fly it just for the sake of flying it I wouldn't have bothered.
People don't realize the amount of effort people are willing to put into CGI. Same thing will happen with voices. Photorealistic actors are already here, we see them all the time but don't realize it. Just about every action movie made in the 2000's has heavy doses of CGI, often times in surprising scenes where one wouldn't expect to see it.
Hollywood bean counters will love it because it means higher profits. Cable networks will love it because they can crank out cheap product. Producers and directors will love it because they can program actors like the program CGI. Actors will love it because they can get back on the stage and forget about that movie stuff. Viewers will love it because we really just want to look at pretty pictures and are happy to suspend our beliefs if the face is pretty enough.
T-Mobile is pretty good in my area, they really got good after the AT&T deal fell through and they picked up extra spectrum. But I also take advantage of the Xfinity wifi hotspots I get through Comcast, which are great when they work and save a lot of data on the LTE side. And they were the first US company to do wifi calling and are pretty good at it. I have an iPad and iPhone 7 that both have the latest LTE radios to get the 700 MHz band. Pricing isn't too bad either, I get a discount through work on an unlimited talk/text plan with 6 GB/month of data on each device, with rollover that lasts for (I think) a year.
Controversy generates clicks. Clicks generate ad revenue. Everyone (who is exchanging money) is happy when we're all miserable.
Reminds me of the climax of Jedi: Luke is thrashing away at Vader, full of hate and anger. Meanwhile the emperor is laughing with glee. Dance, monkey boy! Dance!
1) will work until someone who actually enjoys working, or desires money/compensation more than leisure time comes along and skews the numbers in their favor. There are enough of these people out there that companies can compete for them. They end up setting the standard and the rest of us are dragged along.
2) I think this is exactly what is happening. Look at people who blog, produce YouTube video, sell "adventure" travel packages and other entertainment. But they haven't hit mainstream yet. Everyone who posts on Facebook could easily run their own blog site, but the thinking is that it is too hard, mostly because they are going to be compared to Hollywood and established media. And they have to get over the idea that in order to be successful they have to be Leonardo DiCaprio or something. Instead of Hollywood producing 100 or so movies a year that appeal to billions of people, there might be a billion or so movies that appeal to a few million, but still make money (just not Hollywood money). Instead of everyone going to Disney for a week in the summer they're visiting the local adventure park, going on a fly fishing expedition or taking creative cooking classes. And we'll still have big companies producing big media, but they will delve further into virtual production to the point where everything will be animation, and actors and musicians will go back to the stage.
3) Even with the welfare system in the US, they still need to redefine poverty every once in a while because technology costs drive down to the point where everything is affordable. Many people wouldn't know that there were once apartments in the US that didn't have kitchens and used shared bathrooms. Forget about not having a TV or microwave, that's assumed in the US, even for the most poor of the population. Not saying that welfare is a wonderful experience, but let's not presume that being poor today is the same as being poor in 1955.
The real outcome of all these changes isn't that big companies are going to get bigger (they are), but that small players can survive and thrive. There will be companies building businesses on custom 3D printing, just as there will be companies using 3D printers to eliminate warehouses full of spare parts. My guess is that there will be far more new 3D printing companies than there will be virtual warehouses full of mass produced items.
Early in my career I had a shared administrative assistant. If I wanted, I could have just dictated memos and email to her, she would have printed out any response and walked them over to my desk. But because I was comfortable with a computer and can type at least as quickly as I can talk, there was little need for her. Soon after the company was reorganized and she was gone. (The boss still had one, but then later on both he and his assistant were gone too)
One thing I really miss about her was the ability to screen phone calls. If Siri and all the other so-called "AI" programs running on my phone could do that, I'd start to believe in the tech.
Actually no. I went out and engaged in another activity other than sitting in front of my PC all day.
Since you know everything, go ahead and call over to KDEN and let them know that you'll be flying for a few hours near the Mt Elbert shuttle lot. But make sure they know that you're flying as a hobbyist so that it's all OK.
The rules changed last August for everyone, not just commercial guys.
Last week I passed my "part 107" certification for commercial sUAS pilot. The main driver for me doing this is because I might someday want to fly in airspace that is off limits to a hobbyist pilot. As a hobbyist, you're required to get permission (good luck with that) to fly within 5 miles of any airport (including heliports and grass strips), and forbidden from flying in controlled airspace. With certification you can fly just about anywhere in class G airspace and there's a process (that will soon get much simpler) to get permission to fly in class B, C, D and E airspace. Now if airmen spot an sUAS under them when flying near an airport that might or might not be a problem. As a practical matter, it isn't a good idea to fly just for the heck of it, but there is certainly permitted activity. And almost all activity is well below the hard 400' AGL limit imposed by the FAA anyway, at least for what most of us want to do with drones.
That said, the industry should be doing more to educate pilots, especially now that the FAA has set up rules and fines. Just having an EULA-like "I agree to be a good boy" checkbox isn't enough. And I'm not necessarily in favor of drones being sold in big box retailers either. You won't buy a Cessna like you would an Chevy and you shouldn't buy a drone the same way you'd buy an Xbox. Manufacturers need to be held a little more responsible for their products. These things can potentially do a lot of damage (imagine a 15 lb drone crashing through a roof and then the damaged battery shorting out and catching fire). Most of the people I know think that because they're somewhat easy to fly that means they're not dangerous. When they work, they work great. But there's not too many recoverable failure modes and when something goes wrong, they drop out of the sky like an expensive rock.
Yes, and after the wars the US economy boomed on exports to countries with devastated labor forces. This drove up competition for labor in the US market, increasing prices and expanding the middle class.
That's kind of a myth. Technology that helps fight wars might have civilian uses, but usually it's the other way around. Civilian and agnostic technology gets adapted for war.
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That's the problem, there's no difference between everyday transactions and big deal transactions. We see this all the time in software exploits, where something like a low level serial port driver has an unmatched bug that can be used by clever hackers to take over a system. Those "would you like to save 10%" store credit cards are checked using the same systems that mortgages and cars loans use.
Until tokenized systems are more widespread, and people figure out that having a wallet full of plastic shouldn't be the goal, we're going to be dealing with this.
The Air Force Academy sports teams are the Falcons.
http://www.goairforcefalcons.c...
Yea, not really. 1200 baud packet is pretty bad for transmitting even basic information on a sustained basis. APRS use is sparse in most of the US, yet listening to 144.39 in any city shows that the channel is almost always saturated, even when there are a lot of high digipeaters and everyone is using the newer wideN-n path.
In a traditional packet network where you connect to stations using 1 or more digis (connect N0XXX via K1YYY), the channel is quickly saturated with digipeating, which gets far worse when you have hidden node problems and other collisions.
Mesh networks using modified 802.11x equipment will work better only because there's an automatic routing that takes place, but it will still suffer if there's a high node that becomes a bottleneck, and hidden nodes. At least it will be a little faster and have a decent T/R turn-around time though.
The time to build these networks is before there's a disaster, then harden the nodes. Or at least identify locations and test ahead of time but keep the equipment out of harm's way until needed. And we hams who want high speed networks on VHF and UHF need to start using what we've got (56 Ksps with QAM and other modulation, OFDM carriers, etc) and then petition the FCC for more bandwidth after we've maxed out what we have.
At what point will ISPs open up multicasting to the home? I'm sure the organizers used MC to get to distribution servers but everything from there to the end users is still unicast. I was working during the fight and our multicast to the edge modulator in the headend did just fine. I'm sure they'll point out that events like the Super Bowl will tax their edge routers but what about an event like this? I'm sure it was popular, but still a small fraction of users.
It's a side effect of all the studios being publicly held companies. They become completely risk adverse to anything that doesn't look like what worked the last time. Restaurants, retail shops, banks, airlines are all selling the same product in the same way because "the shareholders" (mostly institutional investors, the only ones who get an audience with the CEO) don't know anything about the business, other than what company X's earnings statement looked like last quarter, and so if you want the fund manager to buy your stock you'd better do what he wants. And once they own enough stock to move the chart negatively they get to define the product too. Usually the product is "do what that other, more successful company does, but for a buck cheaper. Or we'll run you out of the executive suite faster than you can say Transformers IX."
Mission accomplished! Modern "journalism" is all about getting you to click and share, not about actually giving you any news. I saw this story all over my Twitter feed. Tabooa and the "Wait 'til you see what the Baywatch stars look like today!" are the new normal.
Or was it always this way? How many times have you read a story about a subject you know a lot about and see what all they got wrong? Just now there was yet another story about lack of rural broadband in middle-of-nowhere Colorado that Slashdot picked up. No where did they mention that all the last mile equipment out there depends on home density above a certain level for it to make payback, because the investors don't want to wait 10 years for the profits to start (and the equipment will be obsolete in 3). Or that large corporations can't incorporate one-off solutions into their workflow, so these small areas will never be served by the big guys no matter what. No, much easier and more click-baitey to call ISPs evil.
"Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life."
http://batteryuniversity.com/l...
The linked page includes a chart showing the relationship between depth of discharge and number of charge cycles. If I were to guess I imagine electric car drivers are charging daily/nightly when the car is parked at home and just leaving it on the charger when it is in the garage, even though they might have over 50% capacity remaining. Similar to smartphone users who are in the habit of plugging the phone in to charge when they are in the car or sleeping.
Actually, the rich probably won't use technology. They already have "automated" cars, planes and housework in the form of servants who do these tasks for them. I don't have access to this automation except for very short periods and shared (sometimes in a massive scale) in the form of taxis/buses/commercial air travel, or going to a restaurant or nice hotel. But having the level of "automation" of someone like Warren Buffet, who has thousands of people producing for him, functioning as extensions of his mind, is coming. Even now we have the ability to process information in a way unheard of for most of human history.
The vast majority of people have an IQ that is plenty high enough to run and even program most automated machinery. It is just that years of being told that programming is hard work only possible if you have a god-level IQ keeps most people with an average (100) IQ from trying. True, in a country of 330 million people there are probably a few million that are far enough below the average that they'll not be able to get it, but as a percentage of the population I'll bet that they're not enough to be overly worried about.
The idea that "we" have to do something about "them" is how we end up with concentration camps and trails of tears.
I used to work for a cable system in a competitive area. The two companies always tried to get an exclusive deal with the buildings, but through various court orders and lawsuits a compromise was reached: The drop coax going from the equipment demarcation box was owned by the building owner. A competitor had to "release" the line within 48 hours of getting an order from the other. The actual demarc was 1 foot outside of the box in the case of single family homes.
Where it got tricky was when there was a bad line, which was often in some of the older buildings that weren't wired for high speed internet and digital cable. Because the landlord owned the coax it became their responsibility to repair it. Of course they'd either tell the tech to "just repair it" expecting the company to eat the cost of the coax repair with the very real possibility of the renter switching service at any time. Or the landlord would get his maintenance guy to "certify" the cable as good because it worked for whatever test equipment (usually just a line toner) he had.
If a cable company comes in and rewires a building they almost always want exclusive use of the internal wiring because it's not cheap or easy to rewire buildings. Building owners aren't broadband cable engineers, they really don't care nor do they want to deal with it. So they sign the exclusive deals, renters are stuck with whatever service they get and that's that.
The real solution is to get 5G up and running. Then the inside wiring won't be a problem, unless you live in one of those reenforced concrete bunkers.
It's a shame that politics have to enter every decision made.
No, because the AMA's lobbyist did a great job getting that language put into the act. The AMA doesn't care about commercial users, just their membership.
The problem with the club field argument is that if you want to use a drone for photography it gets pretty boring to just take pictures of the club field. I enjoy flying my quadcopter, but if all I could do with it is fly it just for the sake of flying it I wouldn't have bothered.
Two different hobbies.
I'm sure there's a way to "coach" the AI to get a better performance out of it. HTML for voice overs, if you will.
People don't realize the amount of effort people are willing to put into CGI. Same thing will happen with voices. Photorealistic actors are already here, we see them all the time but don't realize it. Just about every action movie made in the 2000's has heavy doses of CGI, often times in surprising scenes where one wouldn't expect to see it.
Hollywood bean counters will love it because it means higher profits. Cable networks will love it because they can crank out cheap product. Producers and directors will love it because they can program actors like the program CGI. Actors will love it because they can get back on the stage and forget about that movie stuff. Viewers will love it because we really just want to look at pretty pictures and are happy to suspend our beliefs if the face is pretty enough.
T-Mobile is pretty good in my area, they really got good after the AT&T deal fell through and they picked up extra spectrum. But I also take advantage of the Xfinity wifi hotspots I get through Comcast, which are great when they work and save a lot of data on the LTE side. And they were the first US company to do wifi calling and are pretty good at it. I have an iPad and iPhone 7 that both have the latest LTE radios to get the 700 MHz band. Pricing isn't too bad either, I get a discount through work on an unlimited talk/text plan with 6 GB/month of data on each device, with rollover that lasts for (I think) a year.
Controversy generates clicks. Clicks generate ad revenue. Everyone (who is exchanging money) is happy when we're all miserable.
Reminds me of the climax of Jedi: Luke is thrashing away at Vader, full of hate and anger. Meanwhile the emperor is laughing with glee. Dance, monkey boy! Dance!
1) will work until someone who actually enjoys working, or desires money/compensation more than leisure time comes along and skews the numbers in their favor. There are enough of these people out there that companies can compete for them. They end up setting the standard and the rest of us are dragged along.
2) I think this is exactly what is happening. Look at people who blog, produce YouTube video, sell "adventure" travel packages and other entertainment. But they haven't hit mainstream yet. Everyone who posts on Facebook could easily run their own blog site, but the thinking is that it is too hard, mostly because they are going to be compared to Hollywood and established media. And they have to get over the idea that in order to be successful they have to be Leonardo DiCaprio or something. Instead of Hollywood producing 100 or so movies a year that appeal to billions of people, there might be a billion or so movies that appeal to a few million, but still make money (just not Hollywood money). Instead of everyone going to Disney for a week in the summer they're visiting the local adventure park, going on a fly fishing expedition or taking creative cooking classes. And we'll still have big companies producing big media, but they will delve further into virtual production to the point where everything will be animation, and actors and musicians will go back to the stage.
3) Even with the welfare system in the US, they still need to redefine poverty every once in a while because technology costs drive down to the point where everything is affordable. Many people wouldn't know that there were once apartments in the US that didn't have kitchens and used shared bathrooms. Forget about not having a TV or microwave, that's assumed in the US, even for the most poor of the population. Not saying that welfare is a wonderful experience, but let's not presume that being poor today is the same as being poor in 1955.
The real outcome of all these changes isn't that big companies are going to get bigger (they are), but that small players can survive and thrive. There will be companies building businesses on custom 3D printing, just as there will be companies using 3D printers to eliminate warehouses full of spare parts. My guess is that there will be far more new 3D printing companies than there will be virtual warehouses full of mass produced items.
Early in my career I had a shared administrative assistant. If I wanted, I could have just dictated memos and email to her, she would have printed out any response and walked them over to my desk. But because I was comfortable with a computer and can type at least as quickly as I can talk, there was little need for her. Soon after the company was reorganized and she was gone. (The boss still had one, but then later on both he and his assistant were gone too)
One thing I really miss about her was the ability to screen phone calls. If Siri and all the other so-called "AI" programs running on my phone could do that, I'd start to believe in the tech.
Target sells the Phantom 3 and Parrot drones. Best Buy sells DJI and Yuneec drones. All of which are more than .55 pounds.
Actually no. I went out and engaged in another activity other than sitting in front of my PC all day.
Since you know everything, go ahead and call over to KDEN and let them know that you'll be flying for a few hours near the Mt Elbert shuttle lot. But make sure they know that you're flying as a hobbyist so that it's all OK.
The rules changed last August for everyone, not just commercial guys.
Last week I passed my "part 107" certification for commercial sUAS pilot. The main driver for me doing this is because I might someday want to fly in airspace that is off limits to a hobbyist pilot. As a hobbyist, you're required to get permission (good luck with that) to fly within 5 miles of any airport (including heliports and grass strips), and forbidden from flying in controlled airspace. With certification you can fly just about anywhere in class G airspace and there's a process (that will soon get much simpler) to get permission to fly in class B, C, D and E airspace. Now if airmen spot an sUAS under them when flying near an airport that might or might not be a problem. As a practical matter, it isn't a good idea to fly just for the heck of it, but there is certainly permitted activity. And almost all activity is well below the hard 400' AGL limit imposed by the FAA anyway, at least for what most of us want to do with drones.
That said, the industry should be doing more to educate pilots, especially now that the FAA has set up rules and fines. Just having an EULA-like "I agree to be a good boy" checkbox isn't enough. And I'm not necessarily in favor of drones being sold in big box retailers either. You won't buy a Cessna like you would an Chevy and you shouldn't buy a drone the same way you'd buy an Xbox. Manufacturers need to be held a little more responsible for their products. These things can potentially do a lot of damage (imagine a 15 lb drone crashing through a roof and then the damaged battery shorting out and catching fire). Most of the people I know think that because they're somewhat easy to fly that means they're not dangerous. When they work, they work great. But there's not too many recoverable failure modes and when something goes wrong, they drop out of the sky like an expensive rock.
Yes, and after the wars the US economy boomed on exports to countries with devastated labor forces. This drove up competition for labor in the US market, increasing prices and expanding the middle class.
That's kind of a myth. Technology that helps fight wars might have civilian uses, but usually it's the other way around. Civilian and agnostic technology gets adapted for war.
Not better, just more equal.