Only pay to watch movies which are worth watching and then you won't be locked into a subscription or watching garbage to justify that decision. It'll work out cheaper both financially and in terms of your time.
If it scales successfully, the technology could help address a major challenge facing the hydrogen economy.
Narrator: It didn't scale successfully.
I'm not surprised to see Toyota's name mentioned in the piece either. They've been flogging the hydrogen dead horse for years rather than developing their own EVs.
Toyota has been engaged in all kinds of harebrained schemes of late. Hydrogen powered vehicles being one obvious example. I also notice that they've begun to refer to their cars as "self-charging" which seems like a pretty weasely description of vehicles which eke 1 mile's worth of range at low speeds from the battery before moving to combustion. Better than nothing but woefully poor compared to EV or PHEV. Besides, every PHEV / EV is "self-charging" too by that criteria, via regen brakes or other means.
If moving full EV is too much for them to consider, they should at least adopt PHEV as the default. A PHEV may have a typical range of 30 miles on battery alone which for many drivers that would cover their entire day and for others would still substantially reduce their fuel consumption.
Steam does have differential updating. But I still see gigabyte+ updates on a regular basis.
The main time I see this happening is when some game releases DLC. Rather than selectively install the DLC they pack it into their data files and inflict the download and footprint cost on everyone whether they want it or not.
For example Planet Coaster does this so the game is 2-3x the size on disk that it needs to be for most people with massive updates from time to time to compound the issue.
No, it's absolutely the right approach. Anti vaccine information is dangerous garbage and the propagation of it through social media has had demonstrable results. Countries are reporting measles diagnoses which are 2-3x higher than they were a few years ago. In large part that is because misinformation is allowed to run alongside, or with even greater prominence that factual, evidence based information.
Facebook even plays host to these groups and amplifies their message every time someone searches for information on vaccines. Facebook even took money from antivaxxers for the placement of ads that might have scared parents into putting their children at risk. As bad as this is, it's long overdue for them to fix their platform.
The same goes for other major social media & search engines. The simplest way is to include some evidentiary / science based weighting on search results and watch as all the brain damage sink like a rock. And obviously do not sell placement of antivax ads.
Any talk of this being censorship (Facebook is a private enterprise, not the government), or some nefarious conspiracy by "authorities" as you put is simply horseshit.
Manning is a self obsessed basket case who betrayed his country because of psychological issues and personal grievances with the army. Refusing to testify in front of a grand jury is not some heroic act. It's just a furtherance of what went before. Rot in jail.
I can understand syncing a PS4 controller to a phone and playing remotely. Using on screen buttons? You may as well not bother. On screen buttons suck at the best of times on games to use them, with screen layouts designed for portions obscured by thumbs.
But even with proper controls, one of the biggest issues with streaming to a small device like a phone is that the games are designed for large displays and it reflects in the size of fonts, buttons, HUD info, even the size of things like your character in 1st / 3rd person games. What works on a large display looks terrible on a tiny one.
I saw that a lot when streaming to a PS Vita from a PS4. The streaming worked flawlessly, but then you had this miniscule screen where you could barely read anything.
Perhaps if games were compelled to have a streaming modes, or accessibility modes for sight impairments with larger layouts they could switch to that. It would make the experience a lot better.
I use the Windows calculator all of the time. My biggest gripe with the Windows 10 one is it takes up too much space. The old one was a little more compact.
Many roads in the UK post their variable speed limits in odd places, e.g. above certain lanes, or on temporary signs for roadworks. In some cases they don't post an explicit speed limit at all - they'll use a national speed limit marker and you're supposed to know what the speed limit is based upon the kind of road you're on - single lane (60mph), dual carriageway(70mph). In other places they will have large speed signs interspersed by smaller "repeater" signs. On less travelled roads these can be partially obscured by hedgerows or trees. In city centres there might be no posted speed limits at all except on the boundaries to faster roads.
I wouldn't trust a car using a camera to reliably infer all of that in all weather conditions - snow, rain, dark, strong sunlight. At the very least it has to fall back onto a satnav.
Besides all that, the UK and Ireland often post up national speed limit on roads when there is absolutely no chance in hell you could safely drive at that speed. The basic rule is you drive safely at the speed allowed by the prevailing conditions. I can well imagine the whacky adventures a self driving car will have if it thinks it can drive 60mph up some country lane.
It should have been obvious as soon as we saw these bendy screens that they would feel horrible, accumulate scratches and probably distort / crease too. Not sure I trust a bendy glass layer any more though - I'll let someone else discover what it's like to pick slivers of it out their face if they bend their phone open and it shatters.
Just sell an XBox stick which streams stuff off the internet. Lots of people have a connection fast enough to support such a device and it could be sold cheap with a subscription. In addition to being cheap, it doesn't even require the other end be constrained to running just XBox titles.
A half-way house XBox sounds like a waste of time tbh - it prevents people buying the cheaper physical disks and the size of most downloads means it would rapidly fill up even if it packed a large hdd.
Many modern cars have a satnav system which is a far more reliable way of knowing the posted speed limit. Much easier to do than pulling a number out of a sea of analog noise under a variety of conditions.
Lots of cars have a speed limiter. Even my relatively crappy hatch has one of those - I set it to 55kmh around town so I can only marginally exceed the posted limit. Out on a motorway I might switch to using the cruise control.
If I turn on the satnav, the car will even bitch at me if I exceed the limit.
There is no chance in hell of Tesla coming out with anything that remotely justifies the moniker "full self-driving". It is an outright lie. It turns out that FSD means autopilot + with some other smattering of features over time - exit ramps, traffic light recognition, automatic driving in cities. So basically some fabulous new opportunities for the software to fuck up in hilarious and fatal ways.
And claims like traffic light recognition and automatic driving are pretty vague. Probably means little more than stopping and starting in a straight line. Useful I guess for commutes, but hardly "full self driving". I very much doubt it will be capable of turning, or getting in the correct lane, or even recognizing which light applies to which lane. It certainly will not be capable of understanding or solving the multitude of intractible problems that people encounter every single day in an urban environment.
I'm also looking forward to the advanced summon feature. Apparently it will summon the car from anywhere in a parking lot. Oh the hilarity that will result when it screws up on one way systems, multi-level carparks, concrete pillars, spikes etc.,
Google ranks results based upon its own proprietary, secret algorithms so this argument is stupid. They're already arbiters. Why can't one of the things they rank results on be the scientific, evidentiary quality of the thing somebody is searching for?
If somebody googles for vaccines, then all the antivax brain damage should be about 10 pages down.
It's not the people you already you need to worry about. It's the ones who don't believe but who are receptive to this kind of crap. It doesn't even have to turn them into true believers to cause harm. It just has to sow doubt / fear / distrust so they don't get shots and put their children and others at risk of serious harm or death
Amazon and social media sites don't have to stop hosting antivax (though that would be nice), but there is no reason either that they should give it due prominence. If someone searches for vaccine information, then the science, evidence based information should appear before any antivax stuff. Bury the antivax results where they belong. There is no reason either for Amazon, or social media services to actively promote the antivax through suggestions, keywords, targeted ads etc.
If major websites actively did that then eventually this brain damage would be contained. There would always be true believers but it would not be a mainstream belief. So yes it could work, providing the likes of Amazon grew a pair and actually did something.
Many cars do have an upsell. It normally consists of physical, tangible additions to the vehicle. e.g. a midrange model which adds features missing from the base model.
In this case I suspect the $2000 buys you a signed software key. I'm sure the base model will also be subject to the usual other kinds of upselling where there is something more tangible being offered - paint job, rims, mood lighting or whatever.
Something like 500,000 people were willing to put a down payment on a Model 3 when Tesla started taking orders, years before the car was even in production. I don't think test drives are going to be a big issue here.
I wonder how many of those were for a $35,000 car which they were misled to believe would be on sale from the get go. I wonder how many asked for their money back, or desperate to hold their place paid more than they original intended to spend.
Anyway Tesla has stated that you can return the car within the first 7 days for a complete refund, so if you really want a test drive just go ahead and buy one. 7 days is a much longer test drive than you'll get from any other manufacturer.
Oh that's great! So to test drive a car, you just need to have $35,000 plus taxes in your bank, transfer all that money to Tesla, wait for the money to clear, wait weeks/months for the car to be delivered, take time off work to take receipt, drive the car once, demand a refund, wait for Tesla to refund the money, discover which taxes, fees or charges *aren't* automatically refunded and get added to Tesla's shit list for asking for a refund. A process that might take months.
That's certainly as easy as was walking into a showroom and asking "can I have a test drive?".
In all honesty I wonder why Tesla don't just outsource test drives if its too much effort to bother with themselves. Let existing owners or fleet firms offer test drives and reward them with a commission if the test drive leads to a sale.
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Bet it looks terrible close-up
Only pay to watch movies which are worth watching and then you won't be locked into a subscription or watching garbage to justify that decision. It'll work out cheaper both financially and in terms of your time.
If it scales successfully, the technology could help address a major challenge facing the hydrogen economy.
Narrator: It didn't scale successfully. I'm not surprised to see Toyota's name mentioned in the piece either. They've been flogging the hydrogen dead horse for years rather than developing their own EVs.
If moving full EV is too much for them to consider, they should at least adopt PHEV as the default. A PHEV may have a typical range of 30 miles on battery alone which for many drivers that would cover their entire day and for others would still substantially reduce their fuel consumption.
Don't download warez or other questionable software onto your phone, you idiots.
Steam does have differential updating. But I still see gigabyte+ updates on a regular basis.
The main time I see this happening is when some game releases DLC. Rather than selectively install the DLC they pack it into their data files and inflict the download and footprint cost on everyone whether they want it or not.
For example Planet Coaster does this so the game is 2-3x the size on disk that it needs to be for most people with massive updates from time to time to compound the issue.
b) They've repacked all their data files rendering everything that went before as obsolete.
Either way it stinks.
Facebook even plays host to these groups and amplifies their message every time someone searches for information on vaccines. Facebook even took money from antivaxxers for the placement of ads that might have scared parents into putting their children at risk. As bad as this is, it's long overdue for them to fix their platform.
The same goes for other major social media & search engines. The simplest way is to include some evidentiary / science based weighting on search results and watch as all the brain damage sink like a rock. And obviously do not sell placement of antivax ads.
Any talk of this being censorship (Facebook is a private enterprise, not the government), or some nefarious conspiracy by "authorities" as you put is simply horseshit.
Manning is a self obsessed basket case who betrayed his country because of psychological issues and personal grievances with the army. Refusing to testify in front of a grand jury is not some heroic act. It's just a furtherance of what went before. Rot in jail.
Even if you pair it doesn't negate the points from para 2 onwards. I've done this and its not speculation.
But even with proper controls, one of the biggest issues with streaming to a small device like a phone is that the games are designed for large displays and it reflects in the size of fonts, buttons, HUD info, even the size of things like your character in 1st / 3rd person games. What works on a large display looks terrible on a tiny one.
I saw that a lot when streaming to a PS Vita from a PS4. The streaming worked flawlessly, but then you had this miniscule screen where you could barely read anything.
Perhaps if games were compelled to have a streaming modes, or accessibility modes for sight impairments with larger layouts they could switch to that. It would make the experience a lot better.
I use the Windows calculator all of the time. My biggest gripe with the Windows 10 one is it takes up too much space. The old one was a little more compact.
More overpriced, scratchy, creasy plastic devices looking around desperately for a problem to solve.
I wouldn't trust a car using a camera to reliably infer all of that in all weather conditions - snow, rain, dark, strong sunlight. At the very least it has to fall back onto a satnav.
Besides all that, the UK and Ireland often post up national speed limit on roads when there is absolutely no chance in hell you could safely drive at that speed. The basic rule is you drive safely at the speed allowed by the prevailing conditions. I can well imagine the whacky adventures a self driving car will have if it thinks it can drive 60mph up some country lane.
It should have been obvious as soon as we saw these bendy screens that they would feel horrible, accumulate scratches and probably distort / crease too. Not sure I trust a bendy glass layer any more though - I'll let someone else discover what it's like to pick slivers of it out their face if they bend their phone open and it shatters.
A half-way house XBox sounds like a waste of time tbh - it prevents people buying the cheaper physical disks and the size of most downloads means it would rapidly fill up even if it packed a large hdd.
Many modern cars have a satnav system which is a far more reliable way of knowing the posted speed limit. Much easier to do than pulling a number out of a sea of analog noise under a variety of conditions.
If I turn on the satnav, the car will even bitch at me if I exceed the limit.
Another utterly useless version of Windows inbound.
Anti-vaxxers aren't thinking critically. So no.
And claims like traffic light recognition and automatic driving are pretty vague. Probably means little more than stopping and starting in a straight line. Useful I guess for commutes, but hardly "full self driving". I very much doubt it will be capable of turning, or getting in the correct lane, or even recognizing which light applies to which lane. It certainly will not be capable of understanding or solving the multitude of intractible problems that people encounter every single day in an urban environment.
I'm also looking forward to the advanced summon feature. Apparently it will summon the car from anywhere in a parking lot. Oh the hilarity that will result when it screws up on one way systems, multi-level carparks, concrete pillars, spikes etc.,
If somebody googles for vaccines, then all the antivax brain damage should be about 10 pages down.
it just makes the people who already believe
It's not the people you already you need to worry about. It's the ones who don't believe but who are receptive to this kind of crap. It doesn't even have to turn them into true believers to cause harm. It just has to sow doubt / fear / distrust so they don't get shots and put their children and others at risk of serious harm or death
Amazon and social media sites don't have to stop hosting antivax (though that would be nice), but there is no reason either that they should give it due prominence. If someone searches for vaccine information, then the science, evidence based information should appear before any antivax stuff. Bury the antivax results where they belong. There is no reason either for Amazon, or social media services to actively promote the antivax through suggestions, keywords, targeted ads etc.
If major websites actively did that then eventually this brain damage would be contained. There would always be true believers but it would not be a mainstream belief. So yes it could work, providing the likes of Amazon grew a pair and actually did something.
In this case I suspect the $2000 buys you a signed software key. I'm sure the base model will also be subject to the usual other kinds of upselling where there is something more tangible being offered - paint job, rims, mood lighting or whatever.
Something like 500,000 people were willing to put a down payment on a Model 3 when Tesla started taking orders, years before the car was even in production. I don't think test drives are going to be a big issue here.
I wonder how many of those were for a $35,000 car which they were misled to believe would be on sale from the get go. I wonder how many asked for their money back, or desperate to hold their place paid more than they original intended to spend.
Anyway Tesla has stated that you can return the car within the first 7 days for a complete refund, so if you really want a test drive just go ahead and buy one. 7 days is a much longer test drive than you'll get from any other manufacturer.
Oh that's great! So to test drive a car, you just need to have $35,000 plus taxes in your bank, transfer all that money to Tesla, wait for the money to clear, wait weeks/months for the car to be delivered, take time off work to take receipt, drive the car once, demand a refund, wait for Tesla to refund the money, discover which taxes, fees or charges *aren't* automatically refunded and get added to Tesla's shit list for asking for a refund. A process that might take months.
That's certainly as easy as was walking into a showroom and asking "can I have a test drive?".
In all honesty I wonder why Tesla don't just outsource test drives if its too much effort to bother with themselves. Let existing owners or fleet firms offer test drives and reward them with a commission if the test drive leads to a sale.