But i still question the validity of pay per view models. They still work around this broken assumption that someone watching something is actually worth $X and if the person didn't pay to watch it, the company is out $X. Once someone has watched a movie once, they already know what happens, they already used up the bandwidth to download it. They really aren't impacting to provider of the movie any more by watching it again. I doubt most people even will watch the movie more than once. I'd think the case where someone downloads a movie and watches it over and over and over is such an insignificant number of people it can't possibly affect the studio's bottom line. Presumably the pay per view model is in place to combat this guy, but really, does that consumer pay multiple times for the same movie? probably not. under either model, the studio gets one sale. they might as well just let the guy have the movie for a small fee in the first place.
The other scenario it's supposed to combat is the consumer that uploads the movie to some file sharing site. As has been pointed out many times in the past, the pirates who are going to illegally download movies are already doing so. DRM or not, they are available already. The best way for the studios to combat this is simply make their content available in a way that is more attractive to the consumer than going to a file sharing site.
Is glass some magic system that comes preloaded with everything you need? I doubt it. If you didn't have the foresight to preload a hebrew translator on your phone (and there are translators that work from the camera stream) when you were going to israel, why would glass have it? Actually, its my understanding that glass itself does next to nothing. It's really just a novel display and input mechanism for your smartphone. You probably still have to dig out your phone and download the right app from time to time even with glass.
my understanding of this (from other videos) is google will publish the specs on how to make glass friendly frames. Then it's up to the eyeglasses designers to use those specs to make frames that are compatible with glass. Then, it's up to me to buy a set of those frames if i want to use glass with my current eyeglasses. (and then maybe google gets some kickback or licensing fee???)
It sounds like kind of a hassle to me. But, I buy new eyeglass frames every few years. At this point i don't think i would consider glass compatible frames, but if it was somehow cool, eh, maybe?
But now that this is out, people looking for jobs are all going to switch to firefox and chrome. They probably still won't have whatever quality makes them good at the job, but they will have lived up to the expectations of the HR algorithm.
Orth deserves no support here. He said the most intellectually dishonest things that could possibly be said. That's not defensible.
I don't see it as intellectually dishonest. What Orth said is probably EXACTLY what the company thinks when consumers complain about it. They pushed him out because he was too honest.
What do you think is going to happen now? The internet connection requirement is going to vanish from xbox? that Orth was somehow the evil genius behind it all? Now that he's gone the rest of microsoft will start singing ding dong the witch is dead and only do what is in our best interest? No. it's still there. They are still pushing for it. It's just that they are going to work harder on making you think it's there because you want it.
We honestly should hold the guy [Orth] up as an idol. he was accurately communicating what the company thinks of it's consumers and allowing us to see through the fog of marketing and make informed purchasing choices.
That sounds suspiciously like the argument, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.", that is brought up to support all kinds of big brotherish laws.
We have had a perfectly good system to measure how well people are learning material. It's called a test. You pass it, you know the material. what difference does it matter if the person is good at highlighting? maybe I happen to already know the material but have to take the course because there's no mechanism to allow me to test out of it. Now i have to spend hours reading it even though i'll ace the tests?
This is a worthless statistic. Maybe they assests were all bloated and inefficient and the movie took way longer to render than it should have. Maybe they were incredibly efficient and every texture and model was optimized and the movie actually took half as long to render as it would have for anyone else. Maybe the hardware was a couple of pentiums in a warm basement in southern california.
At any rate, the time it takes to render a movie is about as interesting as the average histogram from all the frames.
Oil and gas?! How about Solar? Wind? GeoThermal? LFTR/Thorium? Why are we blowing computer power on dying industries!?
Well, it seems like a waste of computing power to use it to find those things. I mean, we already know where the sun is. We already know where it's windy.
The existence of a trait in a species doesn't automatically mean it's beneficial though. It just means that you, as a species are not dying of the trait. Neanderthal eyes could have been 30mm just because of random mutation. They had functioning eyes and a pretty good brain. They were strong and they filled a niche in the ecosystem fine...
... until some other mutation made some competition for them. That's pressure.
still seems a bit tenuous to claim that the species departure is based on just eyes though.
i think the parent was pointing out that apple is never going to allow a 3rd party package manager on ios. because of their success, it looks like the other players (ms, google, etc) are trying to get a similar ecosystem. So, while the project seems like a good idea, the bleak future may be devoid of platforms where such a project could be installed anyway.
Just to be fair, you can include Clinton with Won't Get Fooled Again. I'm pretty sure they all pick a song based on one key phrase without ever understanding the bigger message. Really all they are looking to do though is fire up their base for a little while.
I live in the washington area and i see plenty of people who are driving around in $70k + suvs and exotic sports cars. I wouldn't mind if most of them switched to Teslas.
if sentience and intelligence is some emergent property of a physical system (our brain), it must be possible to create that system again from scratch. It is highly probable that a similar system could be artificially constructed out of other materials or simulated and yield the same results.
sounds like agile aeronautics to me. You hear these horror stories all the time. Now the problem isn't with the methodology, it's in the execution. You need the client 100% on board with the process. You need to stick to your scrums. You need to add new functionality requests to the pool and allow your timeline to shift.
It does seem kind of reckless to me. I don't have any statistics beyond my gut feeling, but i think most military aircraft crashes i've heard of have been in training exercises. I'm less worried about shell casings falling around the streets, and more worried about the whole helicopter.
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I suspect that the studio loses nothing by simply offering an unlimited viewing version for the pay per view price.
But i still question the validity of pay per view models. They still work around this broken assumption that someone watching something is actually worth $X and if the person didn't pay to watch it, the company is out $X. Once someone has watched a movie once, they already know what happens, they already used up the bandwidth to download it. They really aren't impacting to provider of the movie any more by watching it again. I doubt most people even will watch the movie more than once. I'd think the case where someone downloads a movie and watches it over and over and over is such an insignificant number of people it can't possibly affect the studio's bottom line. Presumably the pay per view model is in place to combat this guy, but really, does that consumer pay multiple times for the same movie? probably not. under either model, the studio gets one sale. they might as well just let the guy have the movie for a small fee in the first place.
The other scenario it's supposed to combat is the consumer that uploads the movie to some file sharing site. As has been pointed out many times in the past, the pirates who are going to illegally download movies are already doing so. DRM or not, they are available already. The best way for the studios to combat this is simply make their content available in a way that is more attractive to the consumer than going to a file sharing site.
for a WHOLE 4 YEARS!? amazing!
Is glass some magic system that comes preloaded with everything you need? I doubt it. If you didn't have the foresight to preload a hebrew translator on your phone (and there are translators that work from the camera stream) when you were going to israel, why would glass have it? Actually, its my understanding that glass itself does next to nothing. It's really just a novel display and input mechanism for your smartphone. You probably still have to dig out your phone and download the right app from time to time even with glass.
my understanding of this (from other videos) is google will publish the specs on how to make glass friendly frames. Then it's up to the eyeglasses designers to use those specs to make frames that are compatible with glass. Then, it's up to me to buy a set of those frames if i want to use glass with my current eyeglasses. (and then maybe google gets some kickback or licensing fee???)
It sounds like kind of a hassle to me. But, I buy new eyeglass frames every few years. At this point i don't think i would consider glass compatible frames, but if it was somehow cool, eh, maybe?
But now that this is out, people looking for jobs are all going to switch to firefox and chrome. They probably still won't have whatever quality makes them good at the job, but they will have lived up to the expectations of the HR algorithm.
Orth deserves no support here. He said the most intellectually dishonest things that could possibly be said. That's not defensible.
I don't see it as intellectually dishonest. What Orth said is probably EXACTLY what the company thinks when consumers complain about it. They pushed him out because he was too honest.
What do you think is going to happen now? The internet connection requirement is going to vanish from xbox? that Orth was somehow the evil genius behind it all? Now that he's gone the rest of microsoft will start singing ding dong the witch is dead and only do what is in our best interest? No. it's still there. They are still pushing for it. It's just that they are going to work harder on making you think it's there because you want it.
We honestly should hold the guy [Orth] up as an idol. he was accurately communicating what the company thinks of it's consumers and allowing us to see through the fog of marketing and make informed purchasing choices.
That sounds suspiciously like the argument, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.", that is brought up to support all kinds of big brotherish laws.
We have had a perfectly good system to measure how well people are learning material. It's called a test. You pass it, you know the material. what difference does it matter if the person is good at highlighting? maybe I happen to already know the material but have to take the course because there's no mechanism to allow me to test out of it. Now i have to spend hours reading it even though i'll ace the tests?
The docking port with controller handles could turn this into a very fun and powerful, AND EXPENSIVE large-screen version of a GBA/PSP/etc.
FTFY
This is a worthless statistic. Maybe they assests were all bloated and inefficient and the movie took way longer to render than it should have. Maybe they were incredibly efficient and every texture and model was optimized and the movie actually took half as long to render as it would have for anyone else. Maybe the hardware was a couple of pentiums in a warm basement in southern california.
At any rate, the time it takes to render a movie is about as interesting as the average histogram from all the frames.
I'm holding out for 3d printed records.
Oil and gas?! How about Solar? Wind? GeoThermal? LFTR/Thorium? Why are we blowing computer power on dying industries!?
Well, it seems like a waste of computing power to use it to find those things. I mean, we already know where the sun is. We already know where it's windy.
so this is considered the mozart level of app making? this app will be cherished centuries later?
The existence of a trait in a species doesn't automatically mean it's beneficial though. It just means that you, as a species are not dying of the trait. Neanderthal eyes could have been 30mm just because of random mutation. They had functioning eyes and a pretty good brain. They were strong and they filled a niche in the ecosystem fine...
... until some other mutation made some competition for them. That's pressure.
still seems a bit tenuous to claim that the species departure is based on just eyes though.
would china really notice a million more people?
i think the parent was pointing out that apple is never going to allow a 3rd party package manager on ios. because of their success, it looks like the other players (ms, google, etc) are trying to get a similar ecosystem. So, while the project seems like a good idea, the bleak future may be devoid of platforms where such a project could be installed anyway.
Just to be fair, you can include Clinton with Won't Get Fooled Again. I'm pretty sure they all pick a song based on one key phrase without ever understanding the bigger message. Really all they are looking to do though is fire up their base for a little while.
why do I always see fifteen cars in the drive-thrus, idling for up to a half hour while they get their "food"?
well, if they were electric cars, they wouldn't be idling, they'd just be sitting there. electric car FTW!
I live in the washington area and i see plenty of people who are driving around in $70k + suvs and exotic sports cars. I wouldn't mind if most of them switched to Teslas.
if sentience and intelligence is some emergent property of a physical system (our brain), it must be possible to create that system again from scratch. It is highly probable that a similar system could be artificially constructed out of other materials or simulated and yield the same results.
You are more than just a machine.
You might be more than a machine. There isn't any physical evidence of that though.
well put. i wish i had some mod points for you.
sounds like agile aeronautics to me. You hear these horror stories all the time. Now the problem isn't with the methodology, it's in the execution. You need the client 100% on board with the process. You need to stick to your scrums. You need to add new functionality requests to the pool and allow your timeline to shift.
big deal. i'm a bigshot software developer too. My ipad allows me to do something your ultrabook cant: test my software on an ipad.
It does seem kind of reckless to me. I don't have any statistics beyond my gut feeling, but i think most military aircraft crashes i've heard of have been in training exercises. I'm less worried about shell casings falling around the streets, and more worried about the whole helicopter.