I am not sure I agree. If the data says that $minority group is more violent then $non-minority, it may be statically true for a given set of statistics but we all (should) know that correlation is not causation and it may be that $minority group on average lives in a more dangerous place. Higher insurance rates for $minority group members would be racist, but charging higher rates for people (with out regard to race) living in a dangerous place would not be racist.
Causation is irrelevant in terms of insurance. The only thing that matters is accurately modeling risk. An algorithm doesn't have to know the reasons why kids are more likely to smash up their parents cars. It is only relevant that kids smash up their parents cars.
The problem Google is describing isn't limited to a subset of arbitrary tribal factors society deems to be off limits.
Entire reason for existence of these systems is making prejudiced decisions about individuals based on statistical evidence.
You can spend all day filtering out things that will get you sued or attract bad press but this doesn't address core fact these systems are intended to make prejudiced judgments about individuals based on statistical experience and evidence.
Being prejudiced can be practically helpful in some contexts but don't pretend that isn't what your doing, don't confuse it for fairness and don't bother making up a bunch of mystical bullshit about how your dataset or programmers are biased. Prejudice is the raison d'etre of these systems. It is what they are designed to do.
If you want someone to blame, blame the fucking EU with their damned RoHS directives. If electronic solder still had LEAD in it, like God intended, we wouldn't have BGA parts breaking-free from their PCBs at the slightest provocation. Metallurgy has developed over centuries, but with a stroke of a pen, the chemists were sent back to the drawing board to find a substitute for that which has no substitute.
God intended kids in poor countries who end up mining first world disposable e-trash to get lead poisoning.
And before you say "But no one else has this problem", do a little Googling. You'll find LOTS of similar problems with HTC, LG, Samsung, etc. It's a RoHS thing; but none of those other phones (unless they catch on fire a lot) make for Clickbait on Slashdot like the iPhone does. But the stories are there. But do your own research, Hater
Problems and solutions associated with removing lead are well studied and widely implemented. If your still making EXCUSES for vendors who failed to adapt and get the memo some dozen years after the fact that's on you. Customers don't care about lame excuses they care about outcomes.
There is no excuse for unsafe or failure prone products by any vendor.
You pretty forcefully made my point. There are literally millions of cars with fire troubles. No one gets on TV and tells us to stop using cars. No one thinks that a car fire is the most important risk of using a car, nor should they. Yet when Samsung "hides" the fact that three of their devices caught fire, we rain fire and brimstone on them.
When there are vehicle defects discovered that are known fire hazards vehicles are recalled and people DO get on TV and send letters and make telephone calls to let people know to get their vehicles fixed. The same to varying degrees applies to every other product you purchase with known defects rendering the product unsafe.
The entire point was that the risk may have been a bit overblown. Yes, of course, for the unlucky three people, the impact can be terrible, even catastrophic. But like it or not, life has risks. When you walk outside, you risk your life. When you walk inside, you risk your life. If one of those remote risks became reality for you, ending your life, that would be terrible for you, but that risk should not keep us all from going outside, or inside.
This is not a falsifiable statement. Just because risk exists says nothing about whether a risk from a particular problem or defect is acceptable. Replay your exact response above verbatim except substitute battery fire or car fire for exploding Barbie doll or plastic army dudes who sometimes fire real bullets and hurt people. When you make a statement that can't be falsified you are not communicating useful information.
Batteries inherently carry a risk of fire. All batteries have this risk.
The problem at hand isn't presence of risk it is defects causing unacceptable unnecessary risks. Some batteries are much safer than others. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries can be abused overcharged, undercharged, shot, thrown off cliff, submerged and they won't catch fire. The problem isn't batteries the problem is vendors pushing parameters to marginally increase energy and reduce size while decreasing BOM costs that is actively placing people at increasingly unnecessary risk.
We live with it, because the benefit outweighs the risk. Is Samsung's risk higher or lower than the risk of a standard AA battery catching fire? Is it higher than any other cell phone model? I don't think we know that yet. If Samsung has created an unsafe product, they should address it. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, the replacement devices haven't yet been proven to be any riskier than any other cell phone.
Samsung themselves seems to know the answer to this question because they are halting production.
Samsung has sold millions of these things. Three of them have caught fire. That makes the odds of a device catching fire less than 1 in 1,000,000. Business Insider says that 17 cars catch fire every hour. Where are the cries for recalling cars?
I'm going to keep a copy of your post for safe keeping. This "what about y" device is constantly being invoked as justification for everything from mass surveillance to red rum so often in so many different contexts it usually makes me cringe/sigh Al Gore style whenever I encounter it.
Boldly inquiring about cries for recalling products that catch on fire takes it to a whole new level.
Ever hear of the Air Force bombing Al Qaeda by dropping batteries on them ? Are SpaceX stuffing their rockets full of batteries and igniting them ?
Of course not.. because they use other stuff that has a higher energy density than a fucking battery.
Energy density of Lithium Ion batteries is 1 MJ/kg Energy density of TNT is ~5 MJ/kg Energy density of Pizza is ~50 MJ/kg
Ever hear of the Air Force bombing Al Qaeda by dropping pizza on them?
Of course not because the reality is energy density means shit and these comparisons are ALL crap. What makes most bombs dangerous is their POWER not overall ENERGY.
Batteries have a higher energy density than explosives.
So does pizza.
For this reason there are many layers of defence. The charging circuitry knows the maximu safe rate.
Figures... if you ate a slice fast enough you'd also catch on fire.
Inside the battery are thermal cut outs. The circuitry of the battery is designed to control the rate of charging. The battery series as a whole should be extensively tested under all sorts of situations and failure cases.. Each batttery should be tested separately. In the case of most failures of the battery then it should simply stop accepting charge and act dead. In order for something like this to happen many layers of design, manufacturing and testing need to have failed pretty disastrously.
There are previous articles describing joint investigation between ATL and Samsung where evidence was found of heating from the phone itself starting the problem.
Samsung: We don't need no recall, let the motherfucker burn
Customer: None of you did anything to prevent this! Samsung: There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for this. Customer: Oh don't give me unprepared! You knew then! And you did nothing!
Samsung: We didn't start the fire. Blame it on the battery yeah yeah.
Reasons I don't like Facebook and don't intend to purchase Touch or CV2:
- Oculus runs 24x7 and connects 24x7 to Facebook servers constantly wasting power, network and system resources to stalk people by at the very least uploading list of every VR program they've ever ran even third party software totally unrelated to Oculus home.
- Random forced updates of low quality and no back out with proven track record of breaking shit.
- North Korean style privacy policy granting insane rights including rummaging through your computer and extracting complete inventory of all content and software.
- Online install without any offline download. This is intentionally engineered to allow Facebook to retroactively waltz in and fuck everyone over with more draconian bullshit at their pleasure as if existing updates were not bad enough: Random breakage, introducing hardware DRM, retroactively imposing artificial system requirements that turn working systems into broken ones for no reason other than laziness and indifference.
- External sources toggle is a FU hoop intended to artificially advantage Oculus home.
- Oculus home required to run whether you want it or not.
- Account required to install CV1 even if you don't want one and don't intend on using their app store.
- CYA warnings show up every time you use it and can't be stopped even with registry hacks.
- Facebook legal department asserts physical product is in fact a "service" and only recourse for not agreeing to new service terms is stop using product you paid >$600 for.
- Instantly killed off all community shit that made Oculus and attracted attention to the platform the very second CV1 rolled out.
- Facebook is incapable of having a vision for VR HMD beyond cyber stalking, advertising and walled gardens. It's what they do.. it's what they are. It's all they care about.
There seems to be a lack of understanding around here about the reasoning behind this. We know that realistic simulations are possible to create and our
No we don't know that.
technology for creating them is far from the best possible form. We also know that we have a very limited view of the universe and the potential for advanced intelligence somewhere is very good, especially considering that our
The fact we don't know shit apparently doesn't prevent anyone from assuming more than they know.
perceivable universe and its laws of physics may not be the only one.
Invisible purple dragons may not be the only invisible ones there could be red and green ones too.
We've seen an explosion of information created by computers in just the last few decades and could assume that any intelligence which develops the technology to create simulations has a high likelyhood of generating most of its information within computers over time. If we imagine an unbroken progress of our computer technology just a million years into the future, small by cosmic scales, we could assume that we would be able to create realistic simulations of the universe many times larger than the universe itself.
As of 2016 all of the worlds computers combined can't even simulate what goes on in one solitary atom.
So in a universe at least billions of years old, assuming an accurate perspective, we have a large chance that some technology has come into existence capable of generating precise simulations and that technology would likely propagate until the number of simulations was many times that of the original reality. All we know is we live in an apparent universe. If there are billions of potential simulations and just one original universe, the chances are much greater that we exist in a simulation.
Just because you can run an n-body simulation in a big computer and kind of accurately simulate billions of years of cosmic evolution doesn't mean you stand a chance in hell of predicting from first principals what goes on in a single atom.
Many processes can't be simulated even if you had the capability to turn every atom in the known universe into a transistor.
Yes of course you can do a better job over time with more capable hardware yet there is no evidence in existence in 2016 that says computers will ever be able to fully simulate reality. People are just guessing and flaunting their ignorance.
You can whinge all you want and it won't get you anywhere. The only way Microsoft is going to take notice is if you do something about it such as adopting a penguin mascot or picking up an Apple.
Your giving Microsoft way too much credit. They will only take notice when the electric company cuts power to Redmond due to running out of money to pay basic utility bills.
Fundamental difference in storage architecture. Windows is installed as files on a filesytem on a hard drive. Android is built into a single solid ROM file, not designed for read/write access at all, with a separate partition for writable files. And as another note: most built-in applications on Android can be fully disabled (albeit still "taking up space" in the OS ROM partition)
While it may seem this way in a logical sense when you load or update image files they are basically unzipped into a file system that is normally mounted read only. I wish they would do this and use fuse to handle customizations but it doesn't work this way.
You can mount the system read+write and change whatever you want and actually physically remove whatever packages you please.
You mean all of the proprietary solutions like the Gear and the Rift?
Where you can choose between being locked to one hardware vendor or one notoriously capricious platform?
This isn't a big deal right now because all HMDs do the same thing and translation shims are not all that difficult to implement.
What we desperately need is more competition in the HMD space with multiple vendors pushing optics, tracking, and VR specific display technologies.
I rather like the idea of an open VR API, and I look forward to seeing how this develops.
But your opinion is good too. I heard you can polish turds, after all, so there is some hope for you.
Google is a little late. There is already a well architected solution introduced some 15 years ago with broad industry support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or we can have companies like Facebook, Google and HTC reinvent piecemeal solutions and pass it off as progress.
A headset with tracking is a nice novelty, but the effect wears off quickly without adequate image quality.
As someone who has tried both 6DOF and 3DOF HMDs... 3DOF = puke fest. The moment you translate without the scene moving accordingly is a recipe for instant nausea. 6DOF isn't a gimmick or novelty it is an absolute requirement.
Note that 4K is a pixel count, not a resolution. A 4K 24" monitor has a different resolution than a 4K 50" monitor.
Comparing HMD PPI to smart phone displays is worthless because subpixels have a significant impact on quality in VR. Most cell phones cheese out on this shit for marketing reasons knowing full well that users are incapable of seeing a difference anyway.
The already low bar for passible VR has been set. Anyone failing to meet or exceed is DOA as far as I'm concerned.
Other than a portable "big screen" for watching 2D content on the go I'm not sure what the point of any of this is other than giving VR in general a bad reputation with vintage graphics, crummy optics, inferior tracking and phones that run their batteries down and overheat after minutes of use.
You understand the the claim of "murderous" Hillary Clinton is pure slander, don't you?
It would have been so easy to at least provide links to evidence supporting your declarations. Instead it is more of the same crap of people just spouting their positions without bothering to support them.
If you accept that charge then what about President George "My Pet Goat" Bush? He and his entire core team were in the Oval office when intelligence sources reported about a possible Al Qaeda attack on US soil. They thought it was unimportant and sloughed it off. It was completely ignored.
The PDB was declassified, anyone who cares can read it and make up their own mind.
No doubt, it is sad that all this BS about Hillary, sure she is far from perfect, but she will get done lots of things I agree with, you do not have to love her.
Foreign policy is the only metric that matters when voting for president. The president commands the military and sets posture towards other states.
Presidents have leveraged this reality in the past to radically change the course of history.
Everything else a president could possibly do that is in any way meaningful requires an act of congress to materialize. This is why I'm a single issue voter.
I get people do not like politicians and would love to vote in an outsider too, but Trump is the best we can do? how about next time I will vote for an outsider if
There are at least three Candidates on the ballot in every state and four Candidates on the ballot for president in all but 3 or 4 states.
we can find someone that is half way intelligent. Sean Penn for president or something. Someone that has knowledge and can not make us all look bad. As far as burning the system down to prove a point, you must be a youngster cause I am 45 and have way too much to lose to just say fuck it, lets watch the system burn! WTF
Watching things "burn" live on CNN is a possible outcome of deciding to cast your vote for a Hawk who is less likely than Obama to demonstrate military restraint.
Clinton would be a fucking weak candidate on any other occasion, no arguments there. But for Pete's sake, she's running against Trump. Trump. I can't even believe there's a choice to be made here for half the population of the US.
Have you thought about what might be wrong with your world view that prevents your beliefs from matching up with objective reality?
Will open source be outlawed altogether? Enjoy your burning down of the system. Personally if anarchy is your thing I would have voted for Vermin Supreme.
If by pardon you mean firing squad then yes absolutely.
"I think Snowden is a terrible threat. I think heâ(TM)s a terrible traitor and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country you know what we used to do to traitors right?" - DJT
And ECC. Probably not with this generation, but it's entirely possible three letter organizations are close to having a machine that can at least break smaller key sizes. Which in and of itself isn't especially worrying, except that the more sophisticated and rogue state-sponsored criminals won't be lagging very far behind.
There is no evidence in existence to suggest code breaking quantum computers are even feasible.
There's no good reason why our web security infrastructure shouldn't immediately begin upgrades to support multiple, extensible and arbitrary methods of key exchange, including but not limited to stateful solutions using out of band preshared keys.
TLS provides agility for key exchange and adding cipher suites is a routine affair - there are literally hundreds of them. Everyone will at least have to rekey and at the most update their TLS stacks. Both have been done before and isn't such a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
By far the biggest problem takes the form of retroactive decrypting of previously captured encrypted data including data protected by forward secure algorithms.
Slashdot Mirror
Was when John talked about developing a VR scripting language and discussion went to whether VR scripts would eat into Oculus store profits.
I am not sure I agree. If the data says that $minority group is more violent then $non-minority, it may be statically true for a given set of statistics but we all (should) know that correlation is not causation and it may be that $minority group on average lives in a more dangerous place. Higher insurance rates for $minority group members would be racist, but charging higher rates for people (with out regard to race) living in a dangerous place would not be racist.
Causation is irrelevant in terms of insurance. The only thing that matters is accurately modeling risk. An algorithm doesn't have to know the reasons why kids are more likely to smash up their parents cars. It is only relevant that kids smash up their parents cars.
The problem Google is describing isn't limited to a subset of arbitrary tribal factors society deems to be off limits.
Entire reason for existence of these systems is making prejudiced decisions about individuals based on statistical evidence.
You can spend all day filtering out things that will get you sued or attract bad press but this doesn't address core fact these systems are intended to make prejudiced judgments about individuals based on statistical experience and evidence.
Being prejudiced can be practically helpful in some contexts but don't pretend that isn't what your doing, don't confuse it for fairness and don't bother making up a bunch of mystical bullshit about how your dataset or programmers are biased. Prejudice is the raison d'etre of these systems. It is what they are designed to do.
If you want someone to blame, blame the fucking EU with their damned RoHS directives. If electronic solder still had LEAD in it, like God intended, we wouldn't have BGA parts breaking-free from their PCBs at the slightest provocation. Metallurgy has developed over centuries, but with a stroke of a pen, the chemists were sent back to the drawing board to find a substitute for that which has no substitute.
God intended kids in poor countries who end up mining first world disposable e-trash to get lead poisoning.
And before you say "But no one else has this problem", do a little Googling. You'll find LOTS of similar problems with HTC, LG, Samsung, etc. It's a RoHS thing; but none of those other phones (unless they catch on fire a lot) make for Clickbait on Slashdot like the iPhone does. But the stories are there. But do your own research, Hater
Problems and solutions associated with removing lead are well studied and widely implemented. If your still making EXCUSES for vendors who failed to adapt and get the memo some dozen years after the fact that's on you. Customers don't care about lame excuses they care about outcomes.
There is no excuse for unsafe or failure prone products by any vendor.
You pretty forcefully made my point. There are literally millions of cars with fire troubles. No one gets on TV and tells us to stop using cars. No one thinks that a car fire is the most important risk of using a car, nor should they. Yet when Samsung "hides" the fact that three of their devices caught fire, we rain fire and brimstone on them.
When there are vehicle defects discovered that are known fire hazards vehicles are recalled and people DO get on TV and send letters and make telephone calls to let people know to get their vehicles fixed. The same to varying degrees applies to every other product you purchase with known defects rendering the product unsafe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The entire point was that the risk may have been a bit overblown. Yes, of course, for the unlucky three people, the impact can be terrible, even catastrophic. But like it or not, life has risks. When you walk outside, you risk your life. When you walk inside, you risk your life. If one of those remote risks became reality for you, ending your life, that would be terrible for you, but that risk should not keep us all from going outside, or inside.
This is not a falsifiable statement. Just because risk exists says nothing about whether a risk from a particular problem or defect is acceptable. Replay your exact response above verbatim except substitute battery fire or car fire for exploding Barbie doll or plastic army dudes who sometimes fire real bullets and hurt people. When you make a statement that can't be falsified you are not communicating useful information.
Batteries inherently carry a risk of fire. All batteries have this risk.
The problem at hand isn't presence of risk it is defects causing unacceptable unnecessary risks. Some batteries are much safer than others. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries can be abused overcharged, undercharged, shot, thrown off cliff, submerged and they won't catch fire. The problem isn't batteries the problem is vendors pushing parameters to marginally increase energy and reduce size while decreasing BOM costs that is actively placing people at increasingly unnecessary risk.
We live with it, because the benefit outweighs the risk. Is Samsung's risk higher or lower than the risk of a standard AA battery catching fire? Is it higher than any other cell phone model? I don't think we know that yet. If Samsung has created an unsafe product, they should address it. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, the replacement devices haven't yet been proven to be any riskier than any other cell phone.
Samsung themselves seems to know the answer to this question because they are halting production.
Samsung has sold millions of these things. Three of them have caught fire. That makes the odds of a device catching fire less than 1 in 1,000,000. Business Insider says that 17 cars catch fire every hour. Where are the cries for recalling cars?
I'm going to keep a copy of your post for safe keeping. This "what about y" device is constantly being invoked as justification for everything from mass surveillance to red rum so often in so many different contexts it usually makes me cringe/sigh Al Gore style whenever I encounter it.
Boldly inquiring about cries for recalling products that catch on fire takes it to a whole new level.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://q13fox.com/2016/09/30/s...
http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
http://jalopnik.com/5935974/fi...
http://www.autonews.com/articl...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04...
http://www.popularmechanics.co...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.streetdirectory.com...
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2...
If you want to hear cries from victims themselves click keywords and enter fire. http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/o...
Bull fucking shit !
Ever hear of the Air Force bombing Al Qaeda by dropping batteries on them ?
Are SpaceX stuffing their rockets full of batteries and igniting them ?
Of course not.. because they use other stuff that has a higher energy density than a fucking battery.
Energy density of Lithium Ion batteries is 1 MJ/kg
Energy density of TNT is ~5 MJ/kg
Energy density of Pizza is ~50 MJ/kg
Ever hear of the Air Force bombing Al Qaeda by dropping pizza on them?
Of course not because the reality is energy density means shit and these comparisons are ALL crap. What makes most bombs dangerous is their POWER not overall ENERGY.
Batteries have a higher energy density than explosives.
So does pizza.
For this reason there are many layers of defence. The charging circuitry knows the maximu safe rate.
Figures... if you ate a slice fast enough you'd also catch on fire.
Inside the battery are thermal cut outs. The circuitry of the battery is designed to control the rate of charging. The battery series as a whole should be extensively tested under all sorts of situations and failure cases.. Each batttery should be tested separately. In the case of most failures of the battery then it should simply stop accepting charge and act dead. In order for something like this to happen many layers of design, manufacturing and testing need to have failed pretty disastrously.
There are previous articles describing joint investigation between ATL and Samsung where evidence was found of heating from the phone itself starting the problem.
Samsung: We don't need no recall, let the motherfucker burn
Customer: None of you did anything to prevent this!
Samsung: There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for this.
Customer: Oh don't give me unprepared! You knew then! And you did nothing!
Samsung: We didn't start the fire. Blame it on the battery yeah yeah.
Reasons I don't like Facebook and don't intend to purchase Touch or CV2:
- Oculus runs 24x7 and connects 24x7 to Facebook servers constantly wasting power, network and system resources to stalk people by at the very least uploading list of every VR program they've ever ran even third party software totally unrelated to Oculus home.
- Random forced updates of low quality and no back out with proven track record of breaking shit.
- North Korean style privacy policy granting insane rights including rummaging through your computer and extracting complete inventory of all content and software.
- Online install without any offline download. This is intentionally engineered to allow Facebook to retroactively waltz in and fuck everyone over with more draconian bullshit at their pleasure as if existing updates were not bad enough: Random breakage, introducing hardware DRM, retroactively imposing artificial system requirements that turn working systems into broken ones for no reason other than laziness and indifference.
- External sources toggle is a FU hoop intended to artificially advantage Oculus home.
- Oculus home required to run whether you want it or not.
- Account required to install CV1 even if you don't want one and don't intend on using their app store.
- CYA warnings show up every time you use it and can't be stopped even with registry hacks.
- Facebook legal department asserts physical product is in fact a "service" and only recourse for not agreeing to new service terms is stop using product you paid >$600 for.
- Instantly killed off all community shit that made Oculus and attracted attention to the platform the very second CV1 rolled out.
- Facebook is incapable of having a vision for VR HMD beyond cyber stalking, advertising and walled gardens. It's what they do.. it's what they are. It's all they care about.
Its not because he's a Trump supporter you moron.
Its because he is using his wealth to bully and to surreptitiously distort political discourse at a time when we really don't need it.
So... like Facebook.
I refuse to have anything to do with Oculus after the Palmer Luckey revelations...
Looks at Facebook.... looks at Palmer.... .. looks at Facebook.... looks at Palmer... looks at Zuckerburg... looks at Palmer...
I get it now.. your joking.
There seems to be a lack of understanding around here about the reasoning behind this. We know that realistic simulations are possible to create and our
No we don't know that.
technology for creating them is far from the best possible form. We also know that we have a very limited view of the universe and the potential for advanced
intelligence somewhere is very good, especially considering that our
The fact we don't know shit apparently doesn't prevent anyone from assuming more than they know.
perceivable universe and its laws of physics may not be the only one.
Invisible purple dragons may not be the only invisible ones there could be red and green ones too.
We've seen an explosion of information created by computers in just the last few decades and could assume that any intelligence which develops the technology to create simulations has a high likelyhood of generating most of its information within computers over time. If we imagine an unbroken progress of our computer technology just a million years into the future, small by cosmic scales, we could assume that we would be able to create realistic simulations of the universe many times larger than the universe itself.
As of 2016 all of the worlds computers combined can't even simulate what goes on in one solitary atom.
So in a universe at least billions of years old, assuming an accurate perspective, we have a large chance that some technology has come into existence capable of generating precise simulations and that technology would likely propagate until the number of simulations was many times that of the original reality. All we know is we live in an apparent universe. If there are billions of potential simulations and just one original universe, the chances are much greater that we exist in a simulation.
Just because you can run an n-body simulation in a big computer and kind of accurately simulate billions of years of cosmic evolution doesn't mean you stand a chance in hell of predicting from first principals what goes on in a single atom.
Many processes can't be simulated even if you had the capability to turn every atom in the known universe into a transistor.
Yes of course you can do a better job over time with more capable hardware yet there is no evidence in existence in 2016 that says computers will ever be able to fully simulate reality. People are just guessing and flaunting their ignorance.
You can whinge all you want and it won't get you anywhere. The only way Microsoft is going to take notice is if you do something about it such as adopting a penguin mascot or picking up an Apple.
Your giving Microsoft way too much credit. They will only take notice when the electric company cuts power to Redmond due to running out of money to pay basic utility bills.
Fundamental difference in storage architecture. Windows is installed as files on a filesytem on a hard drive. Android is built into a single solid ROM file, not designed for read/write access at all, with a separate partition for writable files. And as another note: most built-in applications on Android can be fully disabled (albeit still "taking up space" in the OS ROM partition)
While it may seem this way in a logical sense when you load or update image files they are basically unzipped into a file system that is normally mounted read only. I wish they would do this and use fuse to handle customizations but it doesn't work this way.
You can mount the system read+write and change whatever you want and actually physically remove whatever packages you please.
You mean all of the proprietary solutions like the Gear and the Rift?
Where you can choose between being locked to one hardware vendor or one notoriously capricious platform?
This isn't a big deal right now because all HMDs do the same thing and translation shims are not all that difficult to implement.
What we desperately need is more competition in the HMD space with multiple vendors pushing optics, tracking, and VR specific display technologies.
I rather like the idea of an open VR API, and I look forward to seeing how this develops.
But your opinion is good too. I heard you can polish turds, after all, so there is some hope for you.
Google is a little late. There is already a well architected solution introduced some 15 years ago with broad industry support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or we can have companies like Facebook, Google and HTC reinvent piecemeal solutions and pass it off as progress.
A headset with tracking is a nice novelty, but the effect wears off quickly without adequate image quality.
As someone who has tried both 6DOF and 3DOF HMDs ... 3DOF = puke fest. The moment you translate without the scene moving accordingly is a recipe for instant nausea. 6DOF isn't a gimmick or novelty it is an absolute requirement.
Oculus Rift is 461 PPI. Pixel phone is 441 PPI.
Note that 4K is a pixel count, not a resolution. A 4K 24" monitor has a different resolution than a 4K 50" monitor.
Comparing HMD PPI to smart phone displays is worthless because subpixels have a significant impact on quality in VR. Most cell phones cheese out on this shit for marketing reasons knowing full well that users are incapable of seeing a difference anyway.
The already low bar for passible VR has been set. Anyone failing to meet or exceed is DOA as far as I'm concerned.
Other than a portable "big screen" for watching 2D content on the go I'm not sure what the point of any of this is other than giving VR in general a bad reputation with vintage graphics, crummy optics, inferior tracking and phones that run their batteries down and overheat after minutes of use.
You understand the the claim of "murderous" Hillary Clinton is pure slander, don't you?
It would have been so easy to at least provide links to evidence supporting your declarations. Instead it is more of the same crap of people just spouting their positions without bothering to support them.
If you accept that charge then what about President George "My Pet Goat" Bush? He and his entire core team were in the Oval office when intelligence sources reported about a possible Al Qaeda attack on US soil. They thought it was unimportant and sloughed it off. It was completely ignored.
The PDB was declassified, anyone who cares can read it and make up their own mind.
No doubt, it is sad that all this BS about Hillary, sure she is far from perfect, but she will get done lots of things I agree with, you do not have to love her.
Foreign policy is the only metric that matters when voting for president. The president commands the military and sets posture towards other states.
Presidents have leveraged this reality in the past to radically change the course of history.
Everything else a president could possibly do that is in any way meaningful requires an act of congress to materialize. This is why I'm a single issue voter.
I get people do not like politicians and would love to vote in an outsider too, but Trump is the best we can do? how about next time I will vote for an outsider if
There are at least three Candidates on the ballot in every state and four Candidates on the ballot for president in all but 3 or 4 states.
we can find someone that is half way intelligent. Sean Penn for president or something. Someone that has knowledge and can not make us all look bad. As far as burning the system down to prove a point, you must be a youngster cause I am 45 and have way too much to lose to just say fuck it, lets watch the system burn! WTF
Watching things "burn" live on CNN is a possible outcome of deciding to cast your vote for a Hawk who is less likely than Obama to demonstrate military restraint.
Clinton would be a fucking weak candidate on any other occasion, no arguments there. But for Pete's sake, she's running against Trump. Trump. I can't even believe there's a choice to be made here for half the population of the US.
Have you thought about what might be wrong with your world view that prevents your beliefs from matching up with objective reality?
Will open source be outlawed altogether? Enjoy your burning down of the system. Personally if anarchy is your thing I would have voted for Vermin Supreme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Will Trump Pardon Snowden?
If by pardon you mean firing squad then yes absolutely.
"I think Snowden is a terrible threat. I think heâ(TM)s a terrible traitor and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country you know what we used to do to traitors right?" - DJT
And ECC. Probably not with this generation, but it's entirely possible three letter organizations are close to having a machine that can at least break smaller key sizes. Which in and of itself isn't especially worrying, except that the more sophisticated and rogue state-sponsored criminals won't be lagging very far behind.
There is no evidence in existence to suggest code breaking quantum computers are even feasible.
There's no good reason why our web security infrastructure shouldn't immediately begin upgrades to support multiple, extensible and arbitrary methods of key exchange, including but not limited to stateful solutions using out of band preshared keys.
TLS provides agility for key exchange and adding cipher suites is a routine affair - there are literally hundreds of them. Everyone will at least have to rekey and at the most update their TLS stacks. Both have been done before and isn't such a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
By far the biggest problem takes the form of retroactive decrypting of previously captured encrypted data including data protected by forward secure algorithms.