About 10 years ago I was doing photo restoration in a small camera store. I had a large stock of noise/texture patterns to put back into photographs after retouching them so they didn't look too perfect. Even modern retouching tools meant for still photographs don't do that well, so I'm not surprised these "AI" video tools do such a bad job.
There may be scientific research behind speed limits, but that data may be interpreted at random. Some of my local areas have a speed limit of 25 while others are 45, and some are strictly enforced and others aren't. Some speed limits aren't updated for decades, either.
You want the world, but you don't want to have to pay for it.
This is the most important part. There are some people who insist that AI will never be smart enough to truly replace people. I feel that's incorrect. Most of the reason why outsourcing became a thing is because outsourced people were "good enough" for the money. Local workers may be better, but no company wants to PAY that much, so cheaper labor wins out. It's an economics issue -- the same that's driving our rapidly widening wealth divide.
Everything is done with EULAs these days. What are these "contracts" you mention?
I'm sure if you read the Samsung EULA closely enough, it says something about "sharing with business partners -- but only the absolute minimum amount required to fulfill services".
Market forces determine prices. You can argue that software integration makes the hardware more powerful, but the price isn't affected.
Reminds me of all the crappy $500 laptops that flooded the market 10 years ago. The ones that would overheat and die in 10 minutes due to piss poor build quality, and were still cheaper than many of today's phones. They weren't priced that way due to the heaping piles of crapware... that's just what the average Wal-Mart patron was willing to pay.
The 120GB size is definitely something that exists, and it's probably the result of tallying up the winsxs folder. On most Windows machines this folder can be friggin' huge, largely because it stores multiple versions of various system resources. Given that it's also a "special" folder, it's difficult to accurately tell how large it is.
Also, I have a test computer (with a hard drive) on which I installed Win10 for evaluation. I decided not to upgrade, so I still use Win7 on my primary workstation. I had my Win10 system off for a whole month, an when I finally turned it on again, the machine thrashed the drive for a good 2 hours before the system was usable (Edge literally took 45 minutes to start). I later did a Win10 update, and that did more thrashing for over 3 hours. Yes, since SSDs came out, a LOT of software companies stopped caring about filesystem overhead.
Also keep in mind that everyone is using a different version of Win10 as MS pushes their dog food out, expecting the public to do all their QA. I'm not the least bit surprised that your experiences are not the same as those of others. My own experience with Win10 has been horrible, which is exactly why I don't use it. Feel free to accuse me of making up nonsense, too, or insist that my backup PC is a piece of junk. I'll continue to avoid Win10.
Some think that because they’ve enabled it, tech companies should help fix our digital hoarding tendencies. Sedera believes there will soon be platform-agnostic ways of indexing and curating all our data across devices, similar to how the contacts on your phone sync across apps.
Nope. I don't need yet more people telling me to get rid of stuff because they feel it's not important to me. I'm fed up with minimal UIs taking control and options away from me to improve my experience.
My data doesn't hurt or clutter anyone else's life, so give me decent searching tools and GTFO.
It's worth noting that Nissan merged with Renault a long time ago, and since then, Nissan's quality (and business) has gone down substantially. Among Japanese manufacturers, Subaru seems to have filled the market hole left by Nissan.
Though cash can be stolen, it is way more difficult for "authorities" or whoever to revoke remotely. Plastic, charge cards, debit cards are all revocable. I am *very* wary of a shift to mechanisms that can produce financial disability by remote control.
It doesn't even have to be that paranoid. I always love it when the registers lose their network connection and the whole store grinds to a halt.
I always wondered if Disney ever got involved in a lawsuit regarding the merchandise. The original Hamster Dance song is nothing more than a sped-up sound clip from the animated version of Robin Hood.
He doesn't need to fulfill the promise, because his whole presidency relies on, "at least he tried". Hence, why he tweets about 50 different issues a day.
To be fair, phones have pretty much peaked. Everyone has reached the point where the only way they can appear to make improvements is just to just change things for the hell of it and break stuff (like in most other mature tech markets). If Jobs were around, he'd be investigating new markets.
Just wait and see what happens with the Mac when they try switching to ARM. I'm sure that will be a lot of laughs.
This is particularly true since waking computers up from sleep mode does tend to cause input devices to stop responding. Hell, I've had plenty of wake-up problems on both PCs and Macs for over 20 years, so it's obviously a problem that's not easy to solve, either technically or politically.
Don't go overboard, here. We all know Mozilla screwed up a lot of stuff and are largely responsible for their own demise (and that goes for Netscape as well).
The only reason why Firefox has improved as of late is because they are in panic mode, thanks to Chrome. When Mozilla was sitting pretty with 50% market share, that's when the bloat, performance problems, and ignoring user feedback really started.
ActiveX and Silverlight are proprietary, exclusive technologies. That's a bit different than claiming to support an open standard and slipping proprietary stuff in there, instead.
If you had mentioned Microsoft Virtual Machine, you'd be more on point.
Bull. Apple used 68K, and so did everyone else. It was still beating the pants off x86 until FPU performance became important (the real drawback of the '060).
Commodore's biggest mistake in the long run was not adding packed pixel formats to the AGA chipset. Planar pixels are memory efficient, but way, way slower than packed pixels for both updates and burst mode reads. It also gives the illusion that the machine is way slower than it is.
IMO, the biggest flaw of the first Amiga was the lack of a MMU. Amiga programmers were legendary for their horrible hacks that broke the OS and made it extremely difficult for the Commodore engineers to actually improve the chips without breaking all compatibility (which proved to be the real killer feature in the PC industry).
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About 10 years ago I was doing photo restoration in a small camera store. I had a large stock of noise/texture patterns to put back into photographs after retouching them so they didn't look too perfect. Even modern retouching tools meant for still photographs don't do that well, so I'm not surprised these "AI" video tools do such a bad job.
You forgot BASIC... all 150 dialects of it.
There may be scientific research behind speed limits, but that data may be interpreted at random. Some of my local areas have a speed limit of 25 while others are 45, and some are strictly enforced and others aren't. Some speed limits aren't updated for decades, either.
You want the world, but you don't want to have to pay for it.
This is the most important part. There are some people who insist that AI will never be smart enough to truly replace people. I feel that's incorrect. Most of the reason why outsourcing became a thing is because outsourced people were "good enough" for the money. Local workers may be better, but no company wants to PAY that much, so cheaper labor wins out. It's an economics issue -- the same that's driving our rapidly widening wealth divide.
Everything is done with EULAs these days. What are these "contracts" you mention?
I'm sure if you read the Samsung EULA closely enough, it says something about "sharing with business partners -- but only the absolute minimum amount required to fulfill services".
And you actually believe it works?
Even some Linux distros have been caught "accidentally" re-enabling things the end user disabled. It's a thing.
Market forces determine prices. You can argue that software integration makes the hardware more powerful, but the price isn't affected.
Reminds me of all the crappy $500 laptops that flooded the market 10 years ago. The ones that would overheat and die in 10 minutes due to piss poor build quality, and were still cheaper than many of today's phones. They weren't priced that way due to the heaping piles of crapware... that's just what the average Wal-Mart patron was willing to pay.
It's an OS setting so the app can't ignore it.
If there's one thing we should have learned from the Internet Explorer days...
The only read-only memory is mask ROM. The Facebook app needs to be updated occasionally, and that process isn't magic.
The 120GB size is definitely something that exists, and it's probably the result of tallying up the winsxs folder. On most Windows machines this folder can be friggin' huge, largely because it stores multiple versions of various system resources. Given that it's also a "special" folder, it's difficult to accurately tell how large it is.
Also, I have a test computer (with a hard drive) on which I installed Win10 for evaluation. I decided not to upgrade, so I still use Win7 on my primary workstation. I had my Win10 system off for a whole month, an when I finally turned it on again, the machine thrashed the drive for a good 2 hours before the system was usable (Edge literally took 45 minutes to start). I later did a Win10 update, and that did more thrashing for over 3 hours. Yes, since SSDs came out, a LOT of software companies stopped caring about filesystem overhead.
Also keep in mind that everyone is using a different version of Win10 as MS pushes their dog food out, expecting the public to do all their QA. I'm not the least bit surprised that your experiences are not the same as those of others. My own experience with Win10 has been horrible, which is exactly why I don't use it. Feel free to accuse me of making up nonsense, too, or insist that my backup PC is a piece of junk. I'll continue to avoid Win10.
From the article:
Some think that because they’ve enabled it, tech companies should help fix our digital hoarding tendencies. Sedera believes there will soon be platform-agnostic ways of indexing and curating all our data across devices, similar to how the contacts on your phone sync across apps.
Nope. I don't need yet more people telling me to get rid of stuff because they feel it's not important to me. I'm fed up with minimal UIs taking control and options away from me to improve my experience.
My data doesn't hurt or clutter anyone else's life, so give me decent searching tools and GTFO.
It's worth noting that Nissan merged with Renault a long time ago, and since then, Nissan's quality (and business) has gone down substantially. Among Japanese manufacturers, Subaru seems to have filled the market hole left by Nissan.
Though cash can be stolen, it is way more difficult for "authorities" or whoever to revoke remotely. Plastic, charge cards, debit cards are all revocable. I am *very* wary of a shift to mechanisms that can produce financial disability by remote control.
It doesn't even have to be that paranoid. I always love it when the registers lose their network connection and the whole store grinds to a halt.
I always wondered if Disney ever got involved in a lawsuit regarding the merchandise. The original Hamster Dance song is nothing more than a sped-up sound clip from the animated version of Robin Hood.
He doesn't need to fulfill the promise, because his whole presidency relies on, "at least he tried". Hence, why he tweets about 50 different issues a day.
Bullshit is always dangerous. Capitalism not required.
Secondly Linux isn't application centric, it's data centric.
In my day, we said things were either application centric (Mac / smartphones) verses document cetric (just about everything else).
No Firefox bug can ever make the system unbootable.
Isn't Mozilla still installing that Maintenance Service with admin privileges?
To be fair, phones have pretty much peaked. Everyone has reached the point where the only way they can appear to make improvements is just to just change things for the hell of it and break stuff (like in most other mature tech markets). If Jobs were around, he'd be investigating new markets.
Just wait and see what happens with the Mac when they try switching to ARM. I'm sure that will be a lot of laughs.
This is particularly true since waking computers up from sleep mode does tend to cause input devices to stop responding. Hell, I've had plenty of wake-up problems on both PCs and Macs for over 20 years, so it's obviously a problem that's not easy to solve, either technically or politically.
So, basically a repeat of the bending iPhone problem?
Exit stage left.
I mean, up
Don't go overboard, here. We all know Mozilla screwed up a lot of stuff and are largely responsible for their own demise (and that goes for Netscape as well).
The only reason why Firefox has improved as of late is because they are in panic mode, thanks to Chrome. When Mozilla was sitting pretty with 50% market share, that's when the bloat, performance problems, and ignoring user feedback really started.
ActiveX and Silverlight are proprietary, exclusive technologies. That's a bit different than claiming to support an open standard and slipping proprietary stuff in there, instead.
If you had mentioned Microsoft Virtual Machine, you'd be more on point.
Bull. Apple used 68K, and so did everyone else. It was still beating the pants off x86 until FPU performance became important (the real drawback of the '060).
Commodore's biggest mistake in the long run was not adding packed pixel formats to the AGA chipset. Planar pixels are memory efficient, but way, way slower than packed pixels for both updates and burst mode reads. It also gives the illusion that the machine is way slower than it is.
IMO, the biggest flaw of the first Amiga was the lack of a MMU. Amiga programmers were legendary for their horrible hacks that broke the OS and made it extremely difficult for the Commodore engineers to actually improve the chips without breaking all compatibility (which proved to be the real killer feature in the PC industry).