Onetabs and timestamps coming soon!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/l1news-2017-04-25-adam-sandler-fansubbing-netflix-now-illegal-if-youre-dutch
Onetabs and timestamps coming soon!
Great episode
so glad that Microsoft is going full cloud....Chrome books are awesome...........
But the skyn... errr the google quantum chip will be in my phone in the next 3 years! And that they can tell who is who from the microphone
I need that juice bot lol oh man... that was too good
Re: Robot Construction.
I like the idea of partial factory buildings vs. stick framing. There is better quality control in a factory. The biggest problem on job sites is the various trades getting in each others way. Co-ordination is something I find many architects are bad at. I have had a 2 foot steel girder erected one day and the next day I find the HVAC guy has cut a 1 foot hole through it for a duct. Aaaargh! That's not as big an issue with factory Lego parts. Co-ordination with robots will be baked into the software that controls them.
Structural integrity is better too because each part is very rigid. The building code calls for a lot of what we call 'hurricane clips' or sheet metal angles every 2 feet that hold roofs, walls and foundations together.
The clips are made in tons of shapes and sizes with pre-drilled holes and little spikes stamped into the metal. They go in after the framing is done and make a structure a unified whole. If your front door gets hit by a tidal wave, no problem because the clips make the stress flow into every wall of the house. Prefab strength is usually not a problem.
People plus robots = major problem. The unions are gonna go ape shit and blood will flow. I have seen and been victimized by labor riots on construction sites. I think the only way to do robo-contracting is to have all the robots sealed in a blast proof trailer and they only come out at night. In the morning the few carpenters, masons, plumbers, etc that still have jobs, will show up to dot the i's and cross the t's. And guys like me will have to deal with disgruntled laborers saying "You damn engineers and your new fangled robots took our jobs because our union priced us out of the market and it's a better way!"
"Shit... did I say that last part out loud?"
The Dwarf Fortress article has been corrected since L1News:
Correction: This article originally stated that Tarn Adams thought Dwarf Fortress would take hundreds of years to complete. Adams was exaggerating and jokingly referencing the ninety-ninety rule. The article has been updated to clarify Adams thinks it will only take 20 years to complete development.
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I totally support net neutrality but maybe is comparing with the postal service a bad idea? I know they have book post which I think cost substantially less than say electronics? https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm
Slight correction/ Clarification for around 39 minute mark.
while what Ryan stated about Dwarf Fortress is correct for Fortress mode,
there is also Adventure mode which does allow you to directly control a character/avatar and play a roguelike game in a DF world.
Regarding Net Neutrality, major ISP shenanigans, aggressive advertising and FCC corruption:
These issues become a little more concerning when you realize that they are all symptoms of the failures of components of a singular system. Internet 2.0 is struggling to function at the moment after 20 years of unprecedented growth. It was an emergent technology; as sci-fi and futurism didn't really predict it. Kurzweil predicted something not entirely dissimilar but not quite what the internet became... but I digress. These are very serious issues in and of themselves but they are all happening to internet 2.0 at the same time. This has resulted in a great deal of uncertainty about this internet model's future. I personally would suggest that the model is being driven into extinction; because the level of failure is essentially catastrophic; as all of the issues are tied strongly to a hand full of unstable economies.
Net Nutrality is essentially an axiom for equal opportunity. This is extremely important for a foundation for an information society. It's also extremely important for aspects of e-commerce. The horizontal growth that could occur due to small businesses taking advantage of the ease of access that the internet facilitates (or could have facilitated as it were) could have been significant padding for economies to enjoy at least some stability. This is a very serious issue.
Major ISPs in the US and way too often abroad are cable companies of all companies. There is a clear conflict of interest as the TV is set for extinction. Television is in every way a mature technology; and cable companies are artificially sustaining them; thus inhibiting more efficient and effective innovations that could be driving down costs and making global communications technologies access more abundant. This of course isn't likely to happen without some sort of catastrophic failure; as subsidies are paying for legislation that prevents these innovations from gaining traction; legislation that was supposed to be going toward the infrastructure that was to facilitate the abundant bandwidth and thus even better access. Internet 2.0 is now artificially scarce, unreasonably expensive and barely functional.
It's not at all a exaggeration to say that advertising has made web browsing without some sort of ad blocker a waste of time; as web pages can send twice as much data (if not more) from their ads alone. I ad block everything that I don't frequent so that I can at least view the content in a reasonable amount of time. I doubt that anyone would disagree that it is precisely that bad. Ad agencies have been looting the internet since the early 2000s. They are the ones that are lapping up the bandwidth that consumers are paying a premium for.
There was a recent study that found that more than 1/2 of the internet traffic was the activity of bots.
You can bet that the ISPs weren't considering this when making predictions about what would be needed for the internet to function.
On top of all of this the FCC which has pretty much become a middleman between big business and security administrations and is clearly on the take, is quite happy watching the whole thing crumble. All that is done is placing a tech-naive fall guy at the mouth of the machine to regurgitate the excuses.
The shotgun blast to the face of all of this is the Internet of Things. This is a security nightmare looking for the right time to happen. It alone could produce an environment of organized crime that has no precedent in human history. It's already producing feats of nefarious repute that are genuinely awe inspiring. Everybody is siphoning up everybody's information and weighing security expenditures against insurance expenditures... what could possibly go wrong? Aggressive advertising toward neat little gadgets with handy little apps could be the thing that brings down the walls; not to mention the surveillance value of such things. The notion that the FCC would have a problem with such a thing is clearly not the case. The ISPs are more than happy to sell more bandwidth to those who's washing machine tweets them when their whites are done. I'm sure that the NSA would be interested if you are doing something that might be a threat to national security with your washing machine. Maybe they'll put in some sort of sensor that detects accelerants or something... and guess who's going to pay for it?
Reality is much more strange than anything from an Adam Sandler movie; and internet 2.0 is likely to be a victim of it's brutal rape and murder. Hopefully the next web will have much more secure and robust protocols. I'm thinking that a sophisticated P2P model is probably bare minimum. The current one only addresses the accuracy of data transfer. It's probably time to decommission it.
That's a very cool part of DF. You can play a world in Fortress mode for aeons, then switch to Adventure mode and do a roguelike in the world you had been experiencing for so long. Complete with the fortress you were running.
DF is perfection when it comes to generating stories/environments.
Now if only the graphics were better. lol
To be fair, that's another beauty of DF. It's just taking information and pushing it to the screen in ASCII form.
There are lots of tools for giving it a 2.5D isometric view akin to the Sims in a way. That is an example, but the point is more so that since it's just information, you can easily (relatively speaking) produce a graphical layer to replace the ASCII that's appealing.
When I think of that, it means Dwarf Fortress is adaptable (at least through mods) to any level of graphical fidelity. Just requires the effort to create a translation layer for said graphics.
AMD will not open up the PSP. It is an ARM Trustzone at its heart. Very unlikely that ARM will open upp the Trustzone firmware as they make money on licensing deals.
Edit: And posted this in the wrong thread... derp.