I know that a decade or so ago we did not have the ability to detect and monitor all objects capable of destroying life on Earth yet. Do we now have that ability? Are we now identifying and tracking every potential candidate of that kind, or is that even possible?
I recently started a contract for a company that provides their own windows machines that they manage. This is relatively new for me as I have always used my own hardware, however in this case I use the laptop they provide to access their system.
Every time I would log into Outlook and other bits of Microsoft software with an authenticator (I'm using Google's) it would take me to a website pushing Microsoft Authenticator. It literally said "upsell" in the URL, and I could find no way to disable it. After a couple weeks and dozens of uses it finally seems to have gone away.
From what I can tell, she's talking about Microsoft's disinterest or inability to create mobile hardware, and that MS is instead potentially licensing the XBox brand / OS / software stack to other manufactures that are already making portable gaming devices. She sees this as the decline of the Xbox I guess, even though MS has already stated there will be a next gen Xbox at some point.
I'm no expert in this arena, but Xbox has always had a pretty healthy market share even though its competitors had mobile offerings (although the PS mobile devices were never compatible with the actual main PS consoles).
It's kind of crazy every comment to this point is so politically motivated that no one will even talk about the technical merits of wearables. I wear an Apple watch, and make a point to wear it when sleeping as well, because of the vast amounts of health data it captures. Quality of sleep, resting heart rate, heart rate recovery time, blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, heart rate variability, etc. Heck, I even give myself an EKG from time to time.
One day I had some rare heart palpitations, so I did an EKG on the spot and caught a couple. Super useful for my doctor. The only other option in the past was to wear an expensive Holter monitor 24/7 to try and capture an event like that, but now it can be done at any time on-demand.
Sorry, but wearables are pretty amazing technology - almost like a dream come true. You may not like Trump or RFK, but to be ignorant enough to say this is an awful idea shows just how biased and politically motivated people are, especially on what is supposed to be a community that discusses technology.
This is simply a campaign to raise awareness and encourage people to use wearables in general - in whatever form factor or brand they may choose. This has nothing to do with government tracking, government control, government access to data, or anything like that. This has nothing to do with vaccines, or if a person's skin is orange, or what political party is in control.
If Obama went out and said the same thing it would be the most wonderful idea ever to the other set of individuals, while the right-leaning folks would then smash their wearables. Grow up people.
Yep and we have those. What is the leading cause of non-trauma death in the USA? Heart disease. That's what the wearables for for - gaining vast amounts of data for use by doctors for screening to catch trends much earlier, before some major acute event happens.
Oh, you want us to know Chevy’s were on board? Let me guess. They’re Too Big To Fail. Again.
I have no idea what you are spouting off. It had Cherys on board, not Chevys. It was transporting Chinese-made and Chinese brand EVs that most of us have never heard of to Mexico, where they can be sold because of their much more lax standards in what can be sold there. Hence a very strong likelihood of why the deck of the ship carrying vehicles caught fire. If their EV batteries are anything like those Chinese scooter batteries that kept spontaneously catching fire, then there will be lots of vehicle fires in Mexico.
The problem with being on the cusp of something is you still are totally not there, and no guarantee you will ever be there.
I'm not sure if this is the same article verbatim as the fully-paywalled Financial Times, but it is definitely the same topic.
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This town is on an interstate, so we actually have a Tesla Supercharger station in a hotel parking lot, a Sheetz that has 4 EV chargers, and apparently the Nissan dealership has a charging station as well (just googled my town because this made me curious).
I live in a small southern rural town, like good ol' redneck boys everywhere, 1 hour drive to the nearest mall / shopping area, 75% of votes go republican. I've seen more EVs bought here in the last year than in the last several combined. At least two cybertrucks, many Tesla cars (even seeing them at low-budget apartments now, and not just upper-middle class), plus other brands of stuff. They are totally commonplace here now. Maybe we're behind the curve and it's just now getting popular here, but EVs are definitely being sold.
in which case the 21.5 hours of sunlight will really make solar look good
Even then there are still other factors reducing solar. In Nome the sun only reaches a maximum angle in the sky of about 50 degrees at summer solstice. That means the sun travels through a lot more atmosphere, which scatters and absorbs more energy than if the sun was nearly overhead closer to the equator. So even though it gets more sun at that point in time, it's less energetic. People actually mount solar panels vertically on the sides of buildings that far north, as the sun on average is so low in the sky that is the best fixed option.
This is a huge thing, and I learned about this decades ago in UI / UX design. It's the exact same thing between the mouse and the keyboard.
The mouse is a virtual representation of our world within the computer - the pointer on the screen represents where the mouse is in our space. This is BACKWARDS from the ideal interface, as it requires visual processing and synchronizing in our vision and mind where the virtual pointer is each time we need to use the mouse.
The keyboard is the opposite. It is an extension into our world of the computer. Each key exists in our world, and performs just a few functions. We can reach down and automatically "sync" with the keyboard (without even realize we do so) by tactile sense and touching it in certain ways to where we know exactly our hand positions relative to it. No visual distraction required.
So to this day anytime I use software, or visit some poorly constructed web page that REQUIRES mouse input, it annoys me greatly.
Here in the US most of the coal mines, like in WV, are extremely rural and nowhere close to where the power demands are. The coal is shipped via rail and then barges (like on the Ohio / Kanawha rivers) to power plants. That infrastructure investment for transporting the energy in that manner is already in place. It doesn't make any sense to convert these mines (or what used to be mines) to solar if it requires spending a fortune on power transmission lines (which that entire process incurs conversion and transmission losses).
Just build solar farms closer to where power demands are. At least that is the better option in the US.
In the awesome movie Contact (based on Carl Sagan’s novel), the ultra-rich Hadden lives out the remainder of his life on a space station to prolong it because he has cancer.
It appears that PL/I (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming. -- J. Sammet
