The get-tough on crime comically macho idiots are usually the first ones to commit a crime if they were in a circumstance where they needed to and felt they could get away with it. Tablets are really cheap nowadays. My only concern is that the Lithium Ion batteries could be dangerous. I think the highest priority for prison is cameras with audio and night vision capability everywhere inside including aimed at the cell (when they need privacy they could have a small designated area in the cell that is out of the camera field of view. Also, the footage and audio from in-cell cameras should be archived such that only a search warrant issued by a judge can retrieve them. This provides some level of privacy in the cell while being able to investigate inmate on inmate or guard on inmate violence. Prisoners should not have a total expectation of privacy.
Cost is everything. Unless these panels are to be installed in Manhattan or on a satellite efficiency is not much help. If efficiency goes up 2x and cost goes up 10x is that any use? No.
On the other hand if efficiency goes down 2x but cost reduces by 10x we could put solar panels out in the desert and get good use out of it.
Why does it need you to remember to manually mark your spot? It seems this can easily be done with some logic (no AI needed), especially when you combine it with the fact that google should know all the parking spots if not from maps then from noting where cars stop. The accelerometer should be able to provide the phone with an indication of when you are getting out of your car. Also, it can save your GPS track point by point every 10 seconds with a timestamp (locally so no privacy issue) so that in the worst case you can retrace your path back to the car. It should probably periodically delete your paths for privacy reasons if you do choose.
The more you tax companies, the more expensive things you buy will become. In other words, you will be paying extra. When something is high priced, less people buy it. It becomes a luxury item. Less people will have an improved quality of life. In other words, if you buy the item you are better off paying more in tax. Taxing companies will only make things more expensive for you.
If they were going to put the fingerprint scanner in the back, they should have gotten rid of the front facing camera too and put a display on the back. With even a small rear display, the bezel on the front facing side can be eliminated entirely. Sure the phone might be slightly thicker but it would look awesome. As for the speaker grille.. I suppose you can have one that is nearly invisible, have it face a different way, or deal with not having one.
Is this really the right approach? I get that Verizon used taxpayer funds and government brute force to obtain their state sponsored monopolistic market dominance. But then, how would suing them achieve anything? This lawsuit will result in them writing a fat check to Blasio rather than them actually rolling out fiber to anyone. If you want fiber grab your metamucil new yorkers because this isn't the way to get it.
How come portable turrets aren't a thing for the military? I mean, when you have some cover say behind a wall, rooftop, or in a building who wants to be facing the enemy face to face if you can mount ur weapon on a turret and control, aim, and fire from your iPhone, Nintendo Switch, or Xbox controller? It doesn't even have to be on a robot, something the size of a portable tripod oughta be good enough. I feel like there are tons of companies that would be able to make them cheap in sufficient volume.
Why bother with having a mechanical hard drive? You should have included SSD by default. The laptop is already using a weak CPU no need to make the situation worse by having it work off a mechanical hard drive.
I assume at some point they will have facial and voice recognition as an option. It will be comedic though (at first, until they come up with a solution), I imagine a restaurant like Panera has lots of menu items ripe for mispronunciation.
What I meant is that the technology isn't ready yet. It will take about 20 years before we can get 5K per eye displays (at 120fps). They shouldn't be trying to sell these because they aren't ready for the market and it will ruin VR as a concept for a generation. You don't see Ford trying to sell flying cars do you? We don't have the technology to make VR headsets work.
No, they will make more jobs. Automation has consistently been creating more jobs than it has taken away. The world has more employed people (even per capita) than at any time in history. There is ZERO proof that this will change. Second, although the gap between the rich and poor may increase.. so what? The gap might increase but the poor will be richer than they have ever been. The only reason to be mad at that is out of jealousy against the rich. Why else would anyone be concerned about there being a wealth gap? How about talking about the fact that the poor too are going to be richer than they have ever been?
If the resolution was 5K per eye it would be good enough to watch movies and tv in it as though you were in a theater. As it is now, the screen door effect is far too intolerable.
Ok that Brianna person is a fool, no doubt but then what about moronocy of the submitter who said "Small space rocks can indeed do nuclear-weapons-scale damage if hitting the Earth at orbital speeds." ??? Wtf
Small rocks hit the earth all the time at orbital speeds and they burn up in the atmosphere. Even if it didn't burn up in the atmosphere, a small rock at "orbital speed won't do much damage. Even without an atmosphere (which we have btw, last time I checked it would need something measured in tens of feet in size). Good luck getting to orbit, accelerating, and maneuvering such a large object without anybody noticing.
That's all you can say? One lousy paragraph? Lame. The quality of trolls on here are getting worse and worse. It used to be that trolls would write entire walls of text even the Mexican border would have been proud to have.
Von Braun didn't want to send a pilot into space. He wanted to use acrobats. Eisenhower insisted on using a pilot because the Soviets had sent air force pilot Yuri Gagarin into space.
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4K can last 20 years? I don't think so ..8K maybe .. but not 4K. I mean I hope we aren't stuck at 4K for 20 years.
The get-tough on crime comically macho idiots are usually the first ones to commit a crime if they were in a circumstance where they needed to and felt they could get away with it. Tablets are really cheap nowadays. My only concern is that the Lithium Ion batteries could be dangerous. I think the highest priority for prison is cameras with audio and night vision capability everywhere inside including aimed at the cell (when they need privacy they could have a small designated area in the cell that is out of the camera field of view. Also, the footage and audio from in-cell cameras should be archived such that only a search warrant issued by a judge can retrieve them. This provides some level of privacy in the cell while being able to investigate inmate on inmate or guard on inmate violence. Prisoners should not have a total expectation of privacy.
Sometimes there is an energy cost to making the material/molecular structure.
Cost is everything. Unless these panels are to be installed in Manhattan or on a satellite efficiency is not much help. If efficiency goes up 2x and cost goes up 10x is that any use? No.
On the other hand if efficiency goes down 2x but cost reduces by 10x we could put solar panels out in the desert and get good use out of it.
Why does it need you to remember to manually mark your spot? It seems this can easily be done with some logic (no AI needed), especially when you combine it with the fact that google should know all the parking spots if not from maps then from noting where cars stop. The accelerometer should be able to provide the phone with an indication of when you are getting out of your car. Also, it can save your GPS track point by point every 10 seconds with a timestamp (locally so no privacy issue) so that in the worst case you can retrace your path back to the car. It should probably periodically delete your paths for privacy reasons if you do choose.
The more you tax companies, the more expensive things you buy will become. In other words, you will be paying extra. When something is high priced, less people buy it. It becomes a luxury item. Less people will have an improved quality of life. In other words, if you buy the item you are better off paying more in tax. Taxing companies will only make things more expensive for you.
While I agree with eliminating bezels, I am not sure i like phones getting so rectangular. Get rid of the bezel but don't F up the aspect ratio.
If they were going to put the fingerprint scanner in the back, they should have gotten rid of the front facing camera too and put a display on the back. With even a small rear display, the bezel on the front facing side can be eliminated entirely. Sure the phone might be slightly thicker but it would look awesome. As for the speaker grille .. I suppose you can have one that is nearly invisible, have it face a different way, or deal with not having one.
That's just your preference, but remember not everyone likes it in the rear.
Is this really the right approach? I get that Verizon used taxpayer funds and government brute force to obtain their state sponsored monopolistic market dominance. But then, how would suing them achieve anything? This lawsuit will result in them writing a fat check to Blasio rather than them actually rolling out fiber to anyone. If you want fiber grab your metamucil new yorkers because this isn't the way to get it.
Their statement sounds a lot like a Trump tweet.
How come portable turrets aren't a thing for the military? I mean, when you have some cover say behind a wall, rooftop, or in a building who wants to be facing the enemy face to face if you can mount ur weapon on a turret and control, aim, and fire from your iPhone, Nintendo Switch, or Xbox controller? It doesn't even have to be on a robot, something the size of a portable tripod oughta be good enough.
I feel like there are tons of companies that would be able to make them cheap in sufficient volume.
Why bother with having a mechanical hard drive? You should have included SSD by default. The laptop is already using a weak CPU no need to make the situation worse by having it work off a mechanical hard drive.
I called that damn robot a tin can of malfunctioning sprockets and he motor oiled into my pizza.
Unskilled labor is going away? But then what will all of the out-of-work politicians do?
I assume at some point they will have facial and voice recognition as an option. It will be comedic though (at first, until they come up with a solution), I imagine a restaurant like Panera has lots of menu items ripe for mispronunciation.
What I meant is that the technology isn't ready yet. It will take about 20 years before we can get 5K per eye displays (at 120fps). They shouldn't be trying to sell these because they aren't ready for the market and it will ruin VR as a concept for a generation. You don't see Ford trying to sell flying cars do you? We don't have the technology to make VR headsets work.
No, they will make more jobs. Automation has consistently been creating more jobs than it has taken away. The world has more employed people (even per capita) than at any time in history. There is ZERO proof that this will change. Second, although the gap between the rich and poor may increase .. so what? The gap might increase but the poor will be richer than they have ever been. The only reason to be mad at that is out of jealousy against the rich. Why else would anyone be concerned about there being a wealth gap? How about talking about the fact that the poor too are going to be richer than they have ever been?
If the resolution was 5K per eye it would be good enough to watch movies and tv in it as though you were in a theater. As it is now, the screen door effect is far too intolerable.
Ok that Brianna person is a fool, no doubt but then what about moronocy of the submitter who said "Small space rocks can indeed do nuclear-weapons-scale damage if hitting the Earth at orbital speeds." ??? Wtf
Small rocks hit the earth all the time at orbital speeds and they burn up in the atmosphere. Even if it didn't burn up in the atmosphere, a small rock at "orbital speed won't do much damage. Even without an atmosphere (which we have btw, last time I checked it would need something measured in tens of feet in size). Good luck getting to orbit, accelerating, and maneuvering such a large object without anybody noticing.
That's all you can say? One lousy paragraph? Lame. The quality of trolls on here are getting worse and worse. It used to be that trolls would write entire walls of text even the Mexican border would have been proud to have.
Oh great, robots are now taking NBA player jobs!!
Von Braun didn't want to send a pilot into space. He wanted to use acrobats. Eisenhower insisted on using a pilot because the Soviets had sent air force pilot Yuri Gagarin into space.
What comedy it is for a racist to accuse another race of tribalism. LOL!
What? What? Check your sources!! He didn't come up with either concept. He may have popularized space elevator though.