I'm sure that the number of people astral projecting are involved in less road collisions than those driving a car. Should we conclude that astral projection is a safe and effective mode of transport? Or even a mode of transport at all? Or that driving isn't an effective form of transport that is generally safe despite accidents? Or that if we rail about how evil the car industry is or that some people misuse cars that it proves astral projection right?
And in a nutcase, that's your argument with homeopathy. It's a stupid argument.
A small percentage of people hold vaguely held views on homoeopathy. It's not a vote winner to keep it there and its not a vote loser to get rid of it either. Let's not forget that the EU banned every health supplement except those on a permitted list and precisely zero governments fell as a result.
Banning woo from the NHS is an incredibly easy way to save money. Don't sit on the fence, don't endorse it, just get rid of it. If people are dumb enough to believe that nonsense then they can pay for it from their own pockets.
The Fire Phone had a pretty silly gimmick that needed four(!) additional cameras on the front face to track eyes in order to give the UI a pseudo 3D effect. So the device had 6 cameras in total. 5 on the face and one on the other side. If that doesn't ring alarm bells about a project that's gone off the rails then I don't know what does.
Aside from that it had a mediocre phone stack, ran a proprietary fork of Android (that wasn't compatible with the ecosystem) and it was tied to Amazon services.
Because it's running a substandard fork of Android that is tied to Amazon's services. If it were hackable it might have some value to me at that price. If it's not it has no value at all.
Installing an app asking for every permission under the sun / admin rights to watch porn is a terrible idea. I wouldn't be surprised if the app itself came from a dodgy warez site. Though I've also seen sites where a dodgy banner ad immediately starts pushing an apk - literally visit the site from a phone and next thing you know an apk is downloading. It's a terrible security flaw in browsers that they don't stop this.
The only reason I'd see in buying a loss leading tablet is if I could hack it into something more useful. I certainly wouldn't be interested in a device which is locked into Amazon's substandard OS.
It would be trivial and cheap to halt these cars - a box, a trash bag, or a bit of carpet would probably do the trick for $0. A fact which I'm sure criminals would soon figure out, assuming such vehicles ever see the light of day.
The search page was slow, was full of ads and the results were almost irrelevant. The search quality really took a dive when sites started loading up the metadata with keywords. Unsurprisingly when a better search engine appeared everyone jumped ship.
That's why I say minor design changes. Maybe 3-4mm at the base would fix the issue. I'm quite certain most people would prefer that (assuming its designed well) would prefer that to dead space on their screen.
That's pretty expensive. I'm sure Copenhagen has a pretty good public transport / bike scheme which means you could get from A to B for a fraction of that cost. Even a taxi is probably cheaper.
Casio have been doing bluetooth enabled watches for several years now. They use an always-on LCD display, run years before needing new batteries and offer some limited phone connectivity via a low power bluetooth protocol.
The Huawei watch (launched yesterday too) has a similar style watch without the same issue. So I don't really buy the argument that Motorola could do nothing to rectify the fault with some minor design changes. The 360 watch just looks wrong the way it is.
I don't get why they'd do this either. It's a horrible design flaw to have a round face but not actually have a screen that fills it. It's reminiscent of Qualcomm's Toq watch which had a similar non-functional strip.
Of course it's not the only problem for these watches. Virtually all smart watches lack a fundamental reason for being, sucking at the basics whatever else functionality they claim to implement.
Perhaps you're dense or something because I wasn't referring to writing business logic or network applications. I was referring specifically to what games have to do to avoid GCs in Java. The context is extremely clear. And yes I've developed lots of Java software.
A high res is probably most useful for VR. I have a fairly high DPI OnePlus phone and when I plop it in a cardboard headset I not only see the pixels, I can see between the pixels. 4K means 2K to each eye and is probably dense enough to overcome the effect in VR. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony has other plans for the disply than just a phone. Maybe it'll end up in VR headsets.
In every day use in a phone however it's a waste of time and probably just taxes the phone far more than necessary for minimal difference to the end user experience.
4K might be useful if you were using Google Cardboard where pixels get magnified quite significantly. Maybe that's what Sony ultimately intend to use the screen for in their PS4 VR headset.
Otherwise not so much. It just means the DPI goes into stupid territory and the phone OS ends up having to upscale apps to stop them looking like postage stamps.
It is a good thing that that doesn't actually happen and you are just spouting FUD isn't it?
It's not FUD, it's a realistic appreciation of the intractable problems that self drive cars are faced with and hardly likely to solve in an acceptable way in all circumstances. If you think that's FUD I suggest you look at the history of AI, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, robotics etc. and all the false promises made for those technologies and how far we have to go even today.
The only place you might see vehicles in the forseeable future that legally permit drunk / impaired passengers is on closed circuit tracks - airport transfers and such like where the car doesn't even have a wheel. There are far many situations on the open road where a self drive car would screw up or require a human to takeover to seriously contemplate it being legal there any time soon.
Golf courses, parks, it doesn't make a damned bit of difference. Compared to an open road it is a trivial problem and hardly transferable. And yes carts can follow predefined route even in open spaces - arrange the map as a hierarchical series of graphs that allow a cart to calculate a route from one node / graph to another. Doesn't matter if the path a is windy or not, doesn't matter if it's a fairway or a road.
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Now you're simply lying.
And in a nutcase, that's your argument with homeopathy. It's a stupid argument.
A small percentage of people hold vaguely held views on homoeopathy. It's not a vote winner to keep it there and its not a vote loser to get rid of it either. Let's not forget that the EU banned every health supplement except those on a permitted list and precisely zero governments fell as a result.
Banning woo from the NHS is an incredibly easy way to save money. Don't sit on the fence, don't endorse it, just get rid of it. If people are dumb enough to believe that nonsense then they can pay for it from their own pockets.
Aside from that it had a mediocre phone stack, ran a proprietary fork of Android (that wasn't compatible with the ecosystem) and it was tied to Amazon services.
Basically it was just a bad phone.
Even if Larry Lessig didn't stipulate it, I'm sure he'd prefer if his running mate was sane.
Because it's running a substandard fork of Android that is tied to Amazon's services. If it were hackable it might have some value to me at that price. If it's not it has no value at all.
Installing an app asking for every permission under the sun / admin rights to watch porn is a terrible idea. I wouldn't be surprised if the app itself came from a dodgy warez site. Though I've also seen sites where a dodgy banner ad immediately starts pushing an apk - literally visit the site from a phone and next thing you know an apk is downloading. It's a terrible security flaw in browsers that they don't stop this.
The only reason I'd see in buying a loss leading tablet is if I could hack it into something more useful. I certainly wouldn't be interested in a device which is locked into Amazon's substandard OS.
It would be trivial and cheap to halt these cars - a box, a trash bag, or a bit of carpet would probably do the trick for $0. A fact which I'm sure criminals would soon figure out, assuming such vehicles ever see the light of day.
The search page was slow, was full of ads and the results were almost irrelevant. The search quality really took a dive when sites started loading up the metadata with keywords. Unsurprisingly when a better search engine appeared everyone jumped ship.
That's why I say minor design changes. Maybe 3-4mm at the base would fix the issue. I'm quite certain most people would prefer that (assuming its designed well) would prefer that to dead space on their screen.
That's pretty expensive. I'm sure Copenhagen has a pretty good public transport / bike scheme which means you could get from A to B for a fraction of that cost. Even a taxi is probably cheaper.
Casio have been doing bluetooth enabled watches for several years now. They use an always-on LCD display, run years before needing new batteries and offer some limited phone connectivity via a low power bluetooth protocol.
The Huawei watch (launched yesterday too) has a similar style watch without the same issue. So I don't really buy the argument that Motorola could do nothing to rectify the fault with some minor design changes. The 360 watch just looks wrong the way it is.
Of course it's not the only problem for these watches. Virtually all smart watches lack a fundamental reason for being, sucking at the basics whatever else functionality they claim to implement.
Reading comprehension please. The clue is in "compared to an open road".
Perhaps you're dense or something because I wasn't referring to writing business logic or network applications. I was referring specifically to what games have to do to avoid GCs in Java. The context is extremely clear. And yes I've developed lots of Java software.
In every day use in a phone however it's a waste of time and probably just taxes the phone far more than necessary for minimal difference to the end user experience.
Otherwise not so much. It just means the DPI goes into stupid territory and the phone OS ends up having to upscale apps to stop them looking like postage stamps.
Not just pranking. Car robbers would be delighted by a self drive car's willingness to stop if they get an accomplice to stand in the way.
That's like saying "do not use classes or templates in the C++".
No, it's like saying if you want a performant game written in Java then you must avoid doing certain things.
This is just ridiculous.
Yes, you're completely right.
It is a good thing that that doesn't actually happen and you are just spouting FUD isn't it?
It's not FUD, it's a realistic appreciation of the intractable problems that self drive cars are faced with and hardly likely to solve in an acceptable way in all circumstances. If you think that's FUD I suggest you look at the history of AI, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, robotics etc. and all the false promises made for those technologies and how far we have to go even today.
The only place you might see vehicles in the forseeable future that legally permit drunk / impaired passengers is on closed circuit tracks - airport transfers and such like where the car doesn't even have a wheel. There are far many situations on the open road where a self drive car would screw up or require a human to takeover to seriously contemplate it being legal there any time soon.
Golf courses, parks, it doesn't make a damned bit of difference. Compared to an open road it is a trivial problem and hardly transferable. And yes carts can follow predefined route even in open spaces - arrange the map as a hierarchical series of graphs that allow a cart to calculate a route from one node / graph to another. Doesn't matter if the path a is windy or not, doesn't matter if it's a fairway or a road.