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by Phlarp 11y ago
It seems to decouple quite noticeably around 2008.
572.
by Phlarp 11y ago
"What scares me is these consumer drones with inexperienced pilots/autonomous tech without proper failsafes." For people who are into building and flying multirotors in a hobbyist capacity-- this is the nightmare we live eve
573.
by Phlarp 11y ago
A consumer follow-me quad with a youtube camera launched via kickstarter? Probably not. A future DJI aerial photography product with a 4000-8000 price tag? Absolutely. If Amazon ever intends to deploy these for actual package delivery inste
574.
by Phlarp 11y ago
Once you have redundancy in the powertrain, getting redundancy from a flight computer is relatively straight forward. At that point 3 rotors on one side of the craft or multiple computers have to all fail simultaneously to cause a real loss
575.
by Phlarp 11y ago
There are pros and cons to both-- PCB mount baros don't always respond well in settings with lots of moving air and various other nearby components that get warm-to-hot during operation. Keep in mind for either method you also have an
576.
by Phlarp 11y ago
What percentage of any competent IT team can't have a competitive offer in writing by the end of the day? Even if your anticipated time between jobs is 1-2 months, you can still confidently quit by the deadline and end up with six we
577.
by Phlarp 11y ago
Home is usually set where you power up / take off at, however there are plenty of users who can report that their misconfigured home position ended up with a drone taking off at full speed towards Shenzen or the 0,0 lat/long point
578.
by Phlarp 11y ago
The pedant in me feels obligated to point out that helicopters can accomplish unpowered landings using autorotation. If I had to make a choice about which unpowered craft to be in though-- I'll take the plane!
579.
by Phlarp 11y ago
The MEMS sensors, high power SoCs and sophisticated battery chemistry in a light/cheap form were all (arguably) enabled by the mass production of smartphones. Now that multicopters are beginning to ramp up the mass adoption curve and d
580.
by Phlarp 11y ago
A "good" GPS system (the DJI version is ~$100 by itself I think) should be able to get you down to just a few inches of precision, but yes, the market is flooded with cheap (~$20) units that aren't nearly as useful for positi
581.
by Phlarp 11y ago
You can watch this happen in real time too-- every once and a while a video like this will bubble up through social media, hitting the reddit frontpage and making the rounds on facebook. Then TC or pando will run an article featuring the vi
582.
by Phlarp 11y ago
If the quad has only an accel and gyro sensor onboard then yes, the stability will be based primarily on the skill of the pilot and how well the machine is tuned. With a GPS and barometer thrown in, position hold should be pretty close to a
583.
by Phlarp 11y ago
Reality backs this up, a stunt pilot more or less decapitated himself with a heli a while back and while I've seen plenty of rough multicopter injuries ranging from bruises to lacerations I'm not aware of anyone who has managed to
584.
by Phlarp 11y ago
>but I can't ever recall a nearly still level hover from a quadcopter. Seriously? Every one of the DJI products can do this out of the box using just GPS/accel/gyro/barometer. Newer ones can do it even better by addin
585.
by Phlarp 11y ago
The software wasn't the hard part. The hard part was getting a multi million dollar military airplane gimbal sensor precise enough to fly by into a package that could both fit on a circuit board and be cheap enough to mass produce. Sma
586.
by Phlarp 11y ago
I've been into the hobby (building, flying and racing multicopters) for about 10 months now-- I personally think it was a combination of factors with the biggest one being the advent of the tiny / cheap gyro and accel sensors most
587.
by Phlarp 11y ago
Or the little compliance spiders from Minority Report
588.
by Phlarp 11y ago
Ultimately the goal of ransomware is to obtain bitcoins, which are really just value stored in a key you possess, so this problem is nearly intractable as far as maintaining complete deniability. To say nothing of turning those coins into
589.
by Phlarp 12y ago
Maybe new entrants will pressure the entrenched players in markets where new entrants exist. Everywhere else will stay the same, it's not like we hear many people complaining about internet service in places where Google Fiber is deplo
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Surely "utensils" includes more than just modern style metal forks? I don't think it's a stretch to say that the use of tools of any kind in the eating process could remove specific evolutionary pressures that would othe
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by Phlarp 12y ago
They get a cut of app store sales, and additional third parties pay them to display ads within mobile apps using admob. Although it isn't hard to come up with other ways for them to extract more money out of android, I can't imagi
592.
by Phlarp 12y ago
Mostly yes, Adwords is still the elephant in the room. Android is modestly profitable and now Youtube is finally eeking out profit for them, but all of these cash flow sources are firmly rooted in showing ads to captive eyeballs.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
I hope so, but it wasn't included in the live stream last time.
594.
by Phlarp 12y ago
I doubt this very much.
595.
by Phlarp 12y ago
uh, money?
596.
by Phlarp 12y ago
I remember hearing lots of noise about them offering a stand alone streaming service, I was even excited to try it out and see how it handled the traffic of a season premiere (HBOgo has been notably terribly on this front) I googled around
597.
by Phlarp 12y ago
>reworks its content acquisition pipelines as new digital and analog technologies come to market. I would have gladly paid them to watch a stream at 8pm last night, yet somehow that still isn't an option in 2015. Instead I ended up
598.
by Phlarp 12y ago
This is happened anyway, and they are capturing none of this possible revenue. Even if only one person purchased the early access and leaked it to everyone else they'd still be one sale better off than they currently are.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
Great question, I'd love to hear from someone on the Chrome or Mozilla teams about this. Until then we'll just have to assume they are all busy finding new and interesting ways for browsers to use up more system memory.
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by Phlarp 12y ago
All this assumes the third party service is even hashing their passwords. To say nothing of the people who drop in a single round of md5 hashing without a salt and then sit back and tell themselves they are smarter than all those idiots sti

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