It's not throughput that matters, it's latency. If there's more than a tiny delay between turning your head and your eyes seeing the viewport move, then many people get bad motion sickness.
Corporations own Trump too. (in June, Trump got
$51 million in donations, and loaned his campaign $3.8 million.... as a loan, he expects donations to pay back those loans)
Until Citizens United is revoked, all candidates have to suck up to corporations to have a chance in elections.
There are some fields, such as banks and embedded work, where code bases stay around for a while. For example, at the bank where I worked, many of our Unix boxes were Solaris and AIX versions from 10+ years ago. Too old for my tastes. But still you worry that the longer you stay there, the more the rest of industry is leaving you behind and you might be stuck in this niche.
We already have that — binaural recordings work with normal stereo headphones. You only have two ears, so you only need two speakers.
There's something called Dolby Headphone, but all that does is mix 5.1 channels down to 2 channels in a fancy way, and it's essentially a software function that if implemented in the phone, can work with any stereo headphones.
Malaria has been around for tens of thousands of years, so it reached a stable plateau. The risk with a new disease is that it could take too long to understand how it's transmitted and how to prevent transmission.
Quarantine isn't a guarantee, as seen by the two health care workers who contracted Ebola in Texas when caring for a patient.
The summary is misleading. No article mentions extinctions due to climate change. A huge temperature change would cause migration towards the poles, and may cut food supply and kill some people, but not all.
The article that mentions the 10% figure (The Atlantic article) says that a pandemic is the most likely to cause extinction, eg. the 521AD plague killed 13 to 17% of the world's population. But that didn't make it into the sensational summary.
Yeah, I use three layers: 1) over-ear hearing protection like what chainsaw guys use, 2) in-ear earphones, 3) brown noise or rainstorm sounds, turned up as loud as need be.
I sold my $300 noise-cancelling headphones because they didn't do any better, and were much more fragile and harder to replace. (and I'm not an audiophile, I just wanted the noise-blocking)
I found that low frequencies still get through. Maybe it's the very low frequencies, I don't know. But you know how elephants communicate via very low frequencies, and stealth subs communicate through the earth with VLF RF? The lower the frequency, the more it penetrates *everything*.
Also, why wouldn't motivated advertisers identify multiple devices based on Facebook logins or the like? People often login to the same services on all their devices, and I imagine that those services are happy to increase their ad revenue by selling more detailed user data to advertisers.
B..but slippery slope! And "asshole" is subjective, people disagree on what it means!
Sure, but racist threats are excluded from quite a few countries' free speech laws. And reddit isn't a country. So banning racism isn't that controversial.
There's increased costs, for maintenance (regular cleaning) and replacement (it still cracks when damaged, even if it stays in one piece).
Glass by itself isn't nearly as strong as steel, so it would either need bollards or a steel fence to protect against vehicles. Vehicles crashing through gates can be very bad.
Bollards may not be a good idea though, because a smaller vehicle such as a motorcycle might still be able to go between the bollards and break through the glass.
Perhaps the lower half of the fence could be the current steel fence (to protect against large and small vehicles), and the upper half could be glass (to reduce the aesthetic impact).
30 Hz is far below the Nyquist rate (6800 Hz, going by POTS specs), so no, that wouldn't be possible without some fundamental changes in our understanding of information theory and physics.
Yes, this is somewhat explainable in terms of how much literature has been produced over time, and how much literature is accessible online. Wikipedia isn't the problem here, the problem is that the authors didn't acknowledge this issue, let alone attempt to account for it in their computation. (though it's a long paper, so I might have missed where it was discussed)
3D scanning is really important. Whenever we figure out how to do it faster/cheaper/easier, that's important. 3D scanning is useful for all kinds of future activities, from the maker movement (3D printer + 3D scanner = 3D copier), to gaming (eg. Kinect), to driving (eg. DARPA Grand Challenge), to mobile devices (eg. Google Glasses).
whose idea was it to use metal detectors as gun detectors? Time & technology change... and detection methods must change with them.
If non-metallic guns were truly viable, they would have been used 20 years ago to sneak past metal detectors and kill judges and politicians and airplane pilots. Plastic manufacturing has been around for a long time, the only thing 3D printers do is reduce the cost. There are well-funded spy agencies and a few individuals who would have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single gun. And yet none has materialized: [1][2][3]
I can only speak to how my local hackerspace handles it, I don't know how others do.
At this one, most power tools are owned by individual members. If someone gets hurt and wants to sue someone, the only person they can sue is the individual owner. On one hand, this sucks because it puts all the burden on individuals' shoulders. On the other hand, it decreases the chance that someone tries to pay legal fees from prospective damage awards, because damages are likely to be very small, so it reduces the chance someone will lawyer up.
Our hackerspace hasn't had any incidents yet, so I don't know how well this plays out in practice.
Shooting the messenger does nothing to solve the underlying problem. Thanks to the fourth estate and the Streisand effect, shooting the messenger is likely to get you more attention, not less.
The goal isn't to develop fancy new hardware, or to use an overwhelming amount of power. The goal is to develop fancy new software.
With frequency-hopping and time-hopping techniques, if you can intelligently adapt to the local interference, and transmit in the time and frequency gaps where the interference doesn't occur, then you can transmit more data for the same amount of power. That's the goal.
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There are a thousand and one websites that do this for you. For example, Google search for {youtube mp3}.
It's not throughput that matters, it's latency. If there's more than a tiny delay between turning your head and your eyes seeing the viewport move, then many people get bad motion sickness.
Corporations own Trump too. (in June, Trump got $51 million in donations, and loaned his campaign $3.8 million.... as a loan, he expects donations to pay back those loans)
Until Citizens United is revoked, all candidates have to suck up to corporations to have a chance in elections.
Common man, be nice. I know we're anonymous here, but there's a human on the other side.
There are some fields, such as banks and embedded work, where code bases stay around for a while. For example, at the bank where I worked, many of our Unix boxes were Solaris and AIX versions from 10+ years ago. Too old for my tastes. But still you worry that the longer you stay there, the more the rest of industry is leaving you behind and you might be stuck in this niche.
true surround sound headset / speakers?
We already have that — binaural recordings work with normal stereo headphones. You only have two ears, so you only need two speakers.
There's something called Dolby Headphone, but all that does is mix 5.1 channels down to 2 channels in a fancy way, and it's essentially a software function that if implemented in the phone, can work with any stereo headphones.
Is it good for people to consume food without having to expend any calories?
Malaria has been around for tens of thousands of years, so it reached a stable plateau. The risk with a new disease is that it could take too long to understand how it's transmitted and how to prevent transmission.
Quarantine isn't a guarantee, as seen by the two health care workers who contracted Ebola in Texas when caring for a patient.
The summary is misleading. No article mentions extinctions due to climate change. A huge temperature change would cause migration towards the poles, and may cut food supply and kill some people, but not all.
The article that mentions the 10% figure (The Atlantic article) says that a pandemic is the most likely to cause extinction, eg. the 521AD plague killed 13 to 17% of the world's population. But that didn't make it into the sensational summary.
Yeah, I use three layers: 1) over-ear hearing protection like what chainsaw guys use, 2) in-ear earphones, 3) brown noise or rainstorm sounds, turned up as loud as need be.
I sold my $300 noise-cancelling headphones because they didn't do any better, and were much more fragile and harder to replace. (and I'm not an audiophile, I just wanted the noise-blocking)
I found that low frequencies still get through. Maybe it's the very low frequencies, I don't know. But you know how elephants communicate via very low frequencies, and stealth subs communicate through the earth with VLF RF? The lower the frequency, the more it penetrates *everything*.
And use a license plate cover (although covers have been made explicitely illegal in some places).
Also, why wouldn't motivated advertisers identify multiple devices based on Facebook logins or the like? People often login to the same services on all their devices, and I imagine that those services are happy to increase their ad revenue by selling more detailed user data to advertisers.
Co-op living have been around for a long time. Maybe they're trying to give it a more mainstream or upmarket image, but it's not really new.
B..but slippery slope! And "asshole" is subjective, people disagree on what it means!
Sure, but racist threats are excluded from quite a few countries' free speech laws. And reddit isn't a country. So banning racism isn't that controversial.
There's increased costs, for maintenance (regular cleaning) and replacement (it still cracks when damaged, even if it stays in one piece).
Glass by itself isn't nearly as strong as steel, so it would either need bollards or a steel fence to protect against vehicles. Vehicles crashing through gates can be very bad.
Bollards may not be a good idea though, because a smaller vehicle such as a motorcycle might still be able to go between the bollards and break through the glass.
Perhaps the lower half of the fence could be the current steel fence (to protect against large and small vehicles), and the upper half could be glass (to reduce the aesthetic impact).
That would be fantastic. However, the link appears to be created by file:///Users/lucasmearian/, and Lucas Mearian works at ComputerWorld, not HP.
30 Hz is far below the Nyquist rate (6800 Hz, going by POTS specs), so no, that wouldn't be possible without some fundamental changes in our understanding of information theory and physics.
So history and political science are useless, and should stop being taught in schools?
Empirical knowledge isn't the only useful knowledge.
Wikipedia is very slanted towards recent and Eurocentric events.
Yes, this is somewhat explainable in terms of how much literature has been produced over time, and how much literature is accessible online. Wikipedia isn't the problem here, the problem is that the authors didn't acknowledge this issue, let alone attempt to account for it in their computation. (though it's a long paper, so I might have missed where it was discussed)
3D scanning is really important. Whenever we figure out how to do it faster/cheaper/easier, that's important. 3D scanning is useful for all kinds of future activities, from the maker movement (3D printer + 3D scanner = 3D copier), to gaming (eg. Kinect), to driving (eg. DARPA Grand Challenge), to mobile devices (eg. Google Glasses).
whose idea was it to use metal detectors as gun detectors? Time & technology change... and detection methods must change with them.
If non-metallic guns were truly viable, they would have been used 20 years ago to sneak past metal detectors and kill judges and politicians and airplane pilots. Plastic manufacturing has been around for a long time, the only thing 3D printers do is reduce the cost. There are well-funded spy agencies and a few individuals who would have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single gun. And yet none has materialized: [1] [2] [3]
I can only speak to how my local hackerspace handles it, I don't know how others do.
At this one, most power tools are owned by individual members. If someone gets hurt and wants to sue someone, the only person they can sue is the individual owner. On one hand, this sucks because it puts all the burden on individuals' shoulders. On the other hand, it decreases the chance that someone tries to pay legal fees from prospective damage awards, because damages are likely to be very small, so it reduces the chance someone will lawyer up.
Our hackerspace hasn't had any incidents yet, so I don't know how well this plays out in practice.
Shooting the messenger does nothing to solve the underlying problem. Thanks to the fourth estate and the Streisand effect, shooting the messenger is likely to get you more attention, not less.
The goal is to "engineer software-based radios that transmit data faster than a competitor using identical hardware".
The goal isn't to develop fancy new hardware, or to use an overwhelming amount of power. The goal is to develop fancy new software.
With frequency-hopping and time-hopping techniques, if you can intelligently adapt to the local interference, and transmit in the time and frequency gaps where the interference doesn't occur, then you can transmit more data for the same amount of power. That's the goal.