One of Uri Geller's shitty party tricks was to invite people to draw a shape, looking away while they did it and then guess what they drew. And to the astonishment of all he was right.
The trick of course was he was looking and had memorized the most common shapes people drew and could give a fair guess. House, boat etc. This seems like a glorified version of that with little use in the real world.
Google dropped support for the Nexus 4 a long time ago. Yet I was able to install CM14.1 on it just recently. I expect when LineageOS gets going that I will continue to enjoy support for a device long since dumped by the manufacturer. Same goes for a OnePlus One I own.
One MAJOR advantage of custom firmware over stock Android is that it has proper privacy support. CM has a thing called privacy guard with finegrained control over what an app can see or do. Android has some built-in privacy controls but they're nowhere near as good.
For example, the BBC iPlayer app will refuse to run on a phone with stock Android if I deny it access to the telephone number, but under privacy guard I can prevent it seeing the phone stack completely so it behaves as though its on a tablet. That means I can use iPlayer on holiday with custom firmware but not with stock.
Do you know what I never hear a carpenter saying? "Geez, look at all these tools. I wish I had fewer tools in my toolbox."
Do you know what I never hear a carpenter saying? "Geez I wish my tools had known flaws such as splintered handles and hidden razor blades that could slash my hands if I use them wrong? And I wish I had a detailed a nuanced and comprehensive set of rules for using each tool that I couldn't possibly follow. And I wish my tools were so complex and unsafe that nothing I make will work reliably without further time consuming repairs."
No. C++ is complex because it's a 30 year old language sat on top of a 45 year old language. It made some terrible, unsafe design choices that affect code to this day. Rather than correct mistakes such as deprecating bad / unsafe conventions, or defining C++ profiles that compilers honour to elevate warnings to be errors, or just generally tidying up the language, they keep heaping more and more stuff on top of what's already there.
Yes it's an issue for 4K tv too. If you play a UHD 3D movie you lose half the horizontal resolution thanks to L+R and you lose half the vertical resolution because of the TV. IIRC, the passive sets didn't alternate every line either but groups of them and then post processed them in some way so stuff like text on screen looked weird, like very coarse interlacing. I doubt 4K would fix that either unless every other line alternated instead of groups of them.
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So the policy of any government should be to encourage peace and political stability. Making inflammatory remarks, or scaring allies with threats, or generally saying dumb stuff that spooks enemies and allies alike actually heightens tensions, it doesn't reduce them.
Go and look up what "peace dividend" means. The US is not doing it out of the goodness of its heart. It's doing it because the alternative, is far, far worse.
I'm totally aware how binocular vision works. And no the 3DS doesn't use eye tracking. Instead there is a lenticular lens as a layer about the display where a mask basically prevents the left and right eye from seeing the same pixels below.
As for "no way", that depends on how it might be done. If a TV did track faces and could affect the lenticular effect then it could project a display in a manner unique to each viewer. There might be an upper limit since horizonal resolution / number of eyeballs = actual resolution but it could be done.
It's not the only way of course. Holograms have been around for a very long time. Display techonology might be close to catching up with the effect.
I bet Oracle thinks its easier to sell Oracle Linux (and easier to write too since they basically ripped off RHEL) than to bother developing Solaris. The gap between successive releases of Solaris has simply widened over time. They probably think of it as a legacy platform at this point.
That's very true too. I've often seen a news article crawl from its original source through aggregators before it turns up here. But at least this site serves a purpose beyond just being some kind of clickbait ball of aggregated content and inward pointing links.
Engadget used to a lot better site but not these days. Pick any article and if the original source is cited at all it'll be 2, 3, 4, 5 links into the article with all the other links pointing to other Engadget stories, each of which pulls the same shit. The site is deliberately designed to retain visitors (for ad impressions), not for any original content, insight or opinion of their own.
The problem with 3D TVs is they sucked. The ones that used active glasses were the worst - ghosting, expensive glasses etc. The ones with passive glasses were MUCH better but used polarising bands on the screen to deliver a left/right eye picture so the resolution suffered and they were more expensive to produce. Either way they compromised the effect. On top of that glasses of either kind are uncomfortable and make the picture look dim - bad enough in a darkened movie theatre but worse in a home.
Some day someone will produce a 3D TV that doesn't require glasses and supports multiple angles and multiple viewers. At that point it might experience a resurgence.
Engadget suck. They digest stories and then bury the original source link amongst many others, most of which point back into their own site. They should be banned as the source of any story they didn't originate themselves.
It depends on what you mean by "limit". Having to insert a disc to play a game is a pain in the ass, so if the XB1 did uniquely register a game to a console to avoid that hassle then it has obvious advantages.
Where they fucked up is they didn't provide a way for people to "de-register" the disc so they could sell or loan it. The obvious way to do it would be to say that whoever owns the disk can play it and other images are invalid. If you try to play from the image the console will check online to see if the disk has been used elsewhere and ask you to insert the disk if it had. It could also occasionally challenge the user to insert the disc, more frequently based on usage if it thought the disc was a rental copy.
But instead they junked the feature. So now the console has a cache of the game but you always need to insert the disc to play it.
Scorpio, an upgraded Xbox One, is said to have about 3x the power of the PS4, 1.5x the power of the PS4 Pro. And 5x the power of the Xbox One, which it has to be compatible with. Scorpio software must run adequately on the Xbox One despite the huge power gap.
It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft have gimped specs between announcement and release. When Kinect was called Project Natal it had an onboard CPU/DSP that could do motion tracking of 4 people independently, track fingers & hands, even facial expressions. Then they decided to do all the processing on the 360 instead and the thing could barely recognize a person flailing their arms in an exaggerated bowling motion.
Microsoft might take a look at the PS4 Pro and decide there is no reason to exceed it in performance in any substantial way. If games have to remain backwards compatible with the XB1, then perhaps there are limits on what they could even do with the added compute power even if it were available to them.
Microsoft fucked up the launch of the XBox One. It was overpriced, bundled with a peripheral that nobody wanted, was less powerful and looked uglier. That gave the PS4 the lead and it's been widening since.
Whether that continues when "Project Scorpio" turns up in some form remains to be seen. The PS4 Pro and PSVR didn't exactly take the world by storm so perhaps there is an opportunity for Microsoft to seize or maybe the same pit to fall into.
Sony had a folding clam-shell Tablet P a few years ago. Open it out and you had a full size tablet, or half open it and use one half like a keyboard or something. In theory. In practice it was a dumb idea. Apps had no knowledge of two screens so they just opened themselves right across both halves with a dividing line.
Very few people want to watch Netflix movies in only one half of the "full" screen and nor do they want to watch a movie with a big line from a hinge / bezel either.
Unless Microsoft is going to wow everyone with a bendable screen that folds in half (unlikely), it'll probably suck as much as Sony's effort did.
Linux doesn't need to run a subsystem. It requires Microsoft to ship an image and some hyper-v tools that you can install and have an instance of Windows running on Linux. Better yet, support Xen or some other Linux friendly virtualization from the guest Windows OS.
Unless your name is Donald J. Trump, in which case your casino loses money:
And there's a growing suspicion that it might be because they were little more than money laundering fronts for domestic and foreign crime cartels. Indeed his casinos have been repeatedly fined for such activities that were discovered and doubtless that's the tip of the iceberg.
NextStep used Objective C for its front end. There is no reason it had to infect OS X. I assume that was a conscious decision by someone in Apple. The non-nefarious explanation is that some of the tech leads liked it and imposed it on everything they designed. The nefarious explanation is that Apple / Steve Jobs dictated its use to lock developers into the platform.
With USB C we may finally be at the point of having a connector that doesn't need replacing any time soon. It's amazing to think how many lifespans must have been wasted by people trying to plug a USB connectors into the socket the wrong way around.
I suspect it's more to do with Nintendo not giving a flying fuck about 3rd party publishers and then reaping what it sows when the platform turns into a cesspit of shovelware. We saw this with the Wii and the Wii U so it should not be a great surprise if it happens again. It might be fine for Nintendo 1st party sales. It's not fine for other publishers or the consumer.
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The trick of course was he was looking and had memorized the most common shapes people drew and could give a fair guess. House, boat etc. This seems like a glorified version of that with little use in the real world.
One MAJOR advantage of custom firmware over stock Android is that it has proper privacy support. CM has a thing called privacy guard with finegrained control over what an app can see or do. Android has some built-in privacy controls but they're nowhere near as good.
For example, the BBC iPlayer app will refuse to run on a phone with stock Android if I deny it access to the telephone number, but under privacy guard I can prevent it seeing the phone stack completely so it behaves as though its on a tablet. That means I can use iPlayer on holiday with custom firmware but not with stock.
Do you know what I never hear a carpenter saying? "Geez, look at all these tools. I wish I had fewer tools in my toolbox."
Do you know what I never hear a carpenter saying? "Geez I wish my tools had known flaws such as splintered handles and hidden razor blades that could slash my hands if I use them wrong? And I wish I had a detailed a nuanced and comprehensive set of rules for using each tool that I couldn't possibly follow. And I wish my tools were so complex and unsafe that nothing I make will work reliably without further time consuming repairs."
No. C++ is complex because it's a 30 year old language sat on top of a 45 year old language. It made some terrible, unsafe design choices that affect code to this day. Rather than correct mistakes such as deprecating bad / unsafe conventions, or defining C++ profiles that compilers honour to elevate warnings to be errors, or just generally tidying up the language, they keep heaping more and more stuff on top of what's already there.
Yes it's an issue for 4K tv too. If you play a UHD 3D movie you lose half the horizontal resolution thanks to L+R and you lose half the vertical resolution because of the TV. IIRC, the passive sets didn't alternate every line either but groups of them and then post processed them in some way so stuff like text on screen looked weird, like very coarse interlacing. I doubt 4K would fix that either unless every other line alternated instead of groups of them.
... hit the send button too soon ..
So the policy of any government should be to encourage peace and political stability. Making inflammatory remarks, or scaring allies with threats, or generally saying dumb stuff that spooks enemies and allies alike actually heightens tensions, it doesn't reduce them.
Go and look up what "peace dividend" means. The US is not doing it out of the goodness of its heart. It's doing it because the alternative, is far, far worse.
A country should be "all for" spending money to stop an invasion just because a supposed ally reneges on its commitments? Interesting.
As for "no way", that depends on how it might be done. If a TV did track faces and could affect the lenticular effect then it could project a display in a manner unique to each viewer. There might be an upper limit since horizonal resolution / number of eyeballs = actual resolution but it could be done.
It's not the only way of course. Holograms have been around for a very long time. Display techonology might be close to catching up with the effect.
Yes they do.
I bet Oracle thinks its easier to sell Oracle Linux (and easier to write too since they basically ripped off RHEL) than to bother developing Solaris. The gap between successive releases of Solaris has simply widened over time. They probably think of it as a legacy platform at this point.
Engadget used to a lot better site but not these days. Pick any article and if the original source is cited at all it'll be 2, 3, 4, 5 links into the article with all the other links pointing to other Engadget stories, each of which pulls the same shit. The site is deliberately designed to retain visitors (for ad impressions), not for any original content, insight or opinion of their own.
Some day someone will produce a 3D TV that doesn't require glasses and supports multiple angles and multiple viewers. At that point it might experience a resurgence.
Engadget suck. They digest stories and then bury the original source link amongst many others, most of which point back into their own site. They should be banned as the source of any story they didn't originate themselves.
Where they fucked up is they didn't provide a way for people to "de-register" the disc so they could sell or loan it. The obvious way to do it would be to say that whoever owns the disk can play it and other images are invalid. If you try to play from the image the console will check online to see if the disk has been used elsewhere and ask you to insert the disk if it had. It could also occasionally challenge the user to insert the disc, more frequently based on usage if it thought the disc was a rental copy.
But instead they junked the feature. So now the console has a cache of the game but you always need to insert the disc to play it.
Scorpio, an upgraded Xbox One, is said to have about 3x the power of the PS4, 1.5x the power of the PS4 Pro. And 5x the power of the Xbox One, which it has to be compatible with. Scorpio software must run adequately on the Xbox One despite the huge power gap.
It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft have gimped specs between announcement and release. When Kinect was called Project Natal it had an onboard CPU/DSP that could do motion tracking of 4 people independently, track fingers & hands, even facial expressions. Then they decided to do all the processing on the 360 instead and the thing could barely recognize a person flailing their arms in an exaggerated bowling motion.
Microsoft might take a look at the PS4 Pro and decide there is no reason to exceed it in performance in any substantial way. If games have to remain backwards compatible with the XB1, then perhaps there are limits on what they could even do with the added compute power even if it were available to them.
Whether that continues when "Project Scorpio" turns up in some form remains to be seen. The PS4 Pro and PSVR didn't exactly take the world by storm so perhaps there is an opportunity for Microsoft to seize or maybe the same pit to fall into.
Very few people want to watch Netflix movies in only one half of the "full" screen and nor do they want to watch a movie with a big line from a hinge / bezel either.
Unless Microsoft is going to wow everyone with a bendable screen that folds in half (unlikely), it'll probably suck as much as Sony's effort did.
Linux doesn't need to run a subsystem. It requires Microsoft to ship an image and some hyper-v tools that you can install and have an instance of Windows running on Linux. Better yet, support Xen or some other Linux friendly virtualization from the guest Windows OS.
And yes you can make a virtualized image of your own but it's not one supplied by Microsoft, configured and performance tuned for that purpose.
Unless your name is Donald J. Trump, in which case your casino loses money:
And there's a growing suspicion that it might be because they were little more than money laundering fronts for domestic and foreign crime cartels. Indeed his casinos have been repeatedly fined for such activities that were discovered and doubtless that's the tip of the iceberg.
NextStep used Objective C for its front end. There is no reason it had to infect OS X. I assume that was a conscious decision by someone in Apple. The non-nefarious explanation is that some of the tech leads liked it and imposed it on everything they designed. The nefarious explanation is that Apple / Steve Jobs dictated its use to lock developers into the platform.
With USB C we may finally be at the point of having a connector that doesn't need replacing any time soon. It's amazing to think how many lifespans must have been wasted by people trying to plug a USB connectors into the socket the wrong way around.
Somehow I doubt Microsoft will make one of those any time soon.
I suspect it's more to do with Nintendo not giving a flying fuck about 3rd party publishers and then reaping what it sows when the platform turns into a cesspit of shovelware. We saw this with the Wii and the Wii U so it should not be a great surprise if it happens again. It might be fine for Nintendo 1st party sales. It's not fine for other publishers or the consumer.